About the Authors

Zelda de Lange

Contributed equally to this work with: Zelda de Lange, Marlien Pieters

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Marlien Pieters

Contributed equally to this work with: Zelda de Lange, Marlien Pieters

marlien.pieters@nwu.ac.za

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Johann C. Jerling

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Annamarie Kruger

Affiliation Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Dingeman C. Rijken

Affiliation Department of Haematology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK MP JCJ ZDL DCR. Performed the experiments: ZDL. Analyzed the data: MP ZDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP JCJ. Wrote the paper: ZDL MP JCJ DCR.