About the Authors
- Peter Rzehak
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* E-mail: Peter.Rzehak@med.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliation Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany
- Richard Saffery
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Affiliation Cancer and Disease Epigenetics Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052 Victoria Australia
- Eva Reischl
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Marcela Covic
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Affiliation Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany
- Simone Wahl
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Veit Grote
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Affiliation Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany
- Annick Xhonneux
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Affiliation CHC St Vincent, Liège-Rocourt, Belgium
- Jean-Paul Langhendries
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Affiliation CHC St Vincent, Liège-Rocourt, Belgium
- Natalia Ferre
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Affiliation Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Reus, Spain
- Ricardo Closa-Monasterolo
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Affiliation Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Reus, Spain
- Elvira Verduci
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Affiliation University of Milano, Milano, Italy
- Enrica Riva
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Affiliation University of Milano, Milano, Italy
- Piotr Socha
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Affiliation Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- Dariusz Gruszfeld
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Affiliation Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- Berthold Koletzko
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Affiliation Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany
- European Childhood Obesity Trial Study group
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¶Membership of the European Childhood Obesity Trial Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PR BK E. Reischl. Performed the experiments: ER. Analyzed the data: PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR RS MC E. Reischl SW VG AX JPL NF RCM EV E. Riva PS DG BK. Wrote the paper: PR RS MC SW. Pre-processing and normalization of the Illumina 450K data: PR. Conceived or contributed to the CHOP study design and data collection: BK VG JPL AX NF RCM EV E. Riva PS DG. Critically reviewed, discussed and revised the paper: PR MC RS SW E. Reischl VG AX JPL NF RCM EV E. Riva PS DG BK.