About the Authors

Amany K. Elshorbagy

amany.elshorbagy@pharm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Maria Valdivia-Garcia

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Helga Refsum

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga Refsum, Nancy Butte

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Nancy Butte

Contributed equally to this work with: Helga Refsum, Nancy Butte

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE HR. Performed the experiments: NB MVG. Analyzed the data: AE. Wrote the paper: AE. Critically revised the manuscript: HR NB. Conducted the mass-spectrometry assays: MVG. PI of the Viva La Familia Study: NB.