About the Authors

Kees van Bochove

Contributed equally to this work with: Kees van Bochove, Daniël B. van Schalkwijk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist and Leiden, The Netherlands

Daniël B. van Schalkwijk

Contributed equally to this work with: Kees van Bochove, Daniël B. van Schalkwijk

daan.vanschalkwijk@tno.nl

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist and Leiden, The Netherlands, Analytical Sciences Division, The Leiden Amsterdam Centre for Drug Research, Leiden, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Laurence D. Parnell

Affiliation The Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chao-Qiang Lai

Affiliation The Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

José M. Ordovás

Affiliation The Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Albert A. de Graaf

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist and Leiden, The Netherlands

Ben van Ommen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist and Leiden, The Netherlands

Donna K. Arnett

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

DBvS is named inventor on a patent application for the Particle Profiler model, owned by TNO quality of life and the University of Leiden. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have no other conflicts to report.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKA JMO BvO. Performed the experiments: DKA. Analyzed the data: KvB DBvS LDP CQL AAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KvB DBvS LDP BvO. Wrote the paper: KvB DBvS. Manuscript editing: KvB DBvS LDP CQL JMO AAG BvO DKA.