About the Authors

José L. Santos

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Physiology and Toxicology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Rolando De la Cruz

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Claus Holst

Affiliation Centre for Health and Society, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Katrine Grau

Affiliation Centre for Health and Society, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Carolina Naranjo

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Alberto Maiz

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Arne Astrup

Affiliation Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wim H. M. Saris

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ian MacDonald

Affiliation School of Biomedical Science, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Jean-Michel Oppert

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Hotel-Dieu Hospital University Pierre-et-Marie Curie (Paris 6), Human Nutrition Research Center Ile-de-France, Paris, France

Torben Hansen

Affiliation Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark

Oluf Pedersen

Affiliations Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thorkild I. A. Sorensen

Affiliation Centre for Health and Society, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

J. Alfredo Martinez

jalfmtz@unav.es

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Physiology and Toxicology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

NUGENOB Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: AA OP WHMS IM JAM TIAS JMO. Analyzed the data: JLS RDlC CH AM KG CN TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OP TH CH. Wrote the paper: JLS TIAS JAM. Conceived the present sudy: JLS JAM. Conceived and designed the NUGENOB study: TIAS AA OP WHMS.