About the Authors

Maria Arregui

Maria.Arregui@dife.de

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Brian Buijsse

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Norbert Stefan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease and Clinical Chemistry, Member of the Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (DZD), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Dolores Corella

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Eva Fisher

Affiliation Administrative Office of the Commission on Genetic Testing, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Romina di Giuseppe

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Oscar Coltell

Affiliation Department of Computing Languages and Systems, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

Sven Knüppel

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Krasimira Aleksandrova

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Hans-Georg Joost

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Cornelia Weikert

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA EF CW. Performed the experiments: MA. Analyzed the data: MA BB. Wrote the paper: MA. Acquired the data: HB. Acquired biochemical data: NS. Interpreted the data: MA BB CW. Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: BB NS DC EF RdG OC SK KA HGJ HB CW.