About the Authors

Heng Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Wei, Chunxiu Hu, Mei Wang

Affiliations Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands, Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands

Chunxiu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Wei, Chunxiu Hu, Mei Wang

Affiliations Division of Analytical Bioscience, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Mei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Wei, Chunxiu Hu, Mei Wang

Affiliations Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, SU BioMedicine, Zeist, The Netherlands

Anita M. van den Hoek

Affiliation Metabolic Health Research, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Theo H. Reijmers

Affiliations Division of Analytical Bioscience, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Netherlands Metabolomics Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Suzan Wopereis

Affiliation Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Jildau Bouwman

Affiliations Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands, Netherlands Metabolomics Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Raymond Ramaker

Affiliation Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Henrie A. A. J. Korthout

Affiliation Fytagoras B.V, Leiden, The Netherlands

Marco Vennik

Affiliation Fytagoras B.V, Leiden, The Netherlands

Thomas Hankemeier

Affiliations Division of Analytical Bioscience, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Netherlands Metabolomics Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Louis M. Havekes

Affiliations Metabolic Health Research, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Endocrinology and Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Renger F. Witkamp

Affiliation Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Elwin R. Verheij

Affiliation Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Guowang Xu

jan.vandergreef@tno.nl (JVDG); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliations Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Jan van der Greef

jan.vandergreef@tno.nl (JVDG); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliations Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands, Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, Division of Analytical Bioscience, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, SU BioMedicine, Zeist, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Authors employed by SU Biomedicine (Mei Wang and Jan van der Greef) have a potential conflict of interest as their company may benefit from knowledge of the product investigated, which is generated on the basis of the published data. The authors will, however, not receive additional salary, additional personal income, or any form of financial support based on this study or the direct outcome. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW AMvdH LMH JvdG. Performed the experiments: HW CH AMvdH RR HAAJK MV. Analyzed the data: HW CH AMvdH THR HAAJK MV ERV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMvdH RR HAAJK MV ERV. Wrote the paper: HW CH MW RFW AMvdH SW JB. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: HW CH MW RFW. Contributed to the writing and revision of the manuscript: HW CH MW RFW AMvdH THR SW JB RR HAAJK MV TH LMH ERV GX JvdG.