About the Authors

Glenn S. Gerhard

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Amanda Hanson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes and Fibrotic Disease Unit, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Danielle Wilhelmsen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes and Fibrotic Disease Unit, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Ignazio S. Piras

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diabetes and Fibrotic Disease Unit, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Christopher D. Still

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geisinger Obesity Institute, Danville, PA, United States of America

Xin Chu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geisinger Obesity Institute, Danville, PA, United States of America

Anthony T. Petrick

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geisinger Obesity Institute, Danville, PA, United States of America

Johanna K. DiStefano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

jdistefano@tgen.org

Affiliation Diabetes and Fibrotic Disease Unit, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that there are no conflicts of interest.