| Steering Committee Chair and Principal Investigator: | BOUCHARD, Claude, Ph.D. | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Project Director: | RANKINEN, Tuomo, Ph.D. | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Principal Investigator: | LEON, Arthur S., M.D. | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| Principal Investigator: | RAO, D.C., Ph.D. | Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| Principal Investigator: | SKINNER, James S., Ph.D. | Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| Principal Investigator: | WILMORE, Jack H., Ph.D. | Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |