About the Authors
- Tanja Jaeggi
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* E-mail: Tanja.jaeggi@hest.ethz.ch
Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Diego Moretti
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Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Jane Kvalsvig
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Affiliation University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Penny A. Holding
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Affiliation International Centre for Behavioural Studies, Mombasa, Kenya
- Harold Tjalsma
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Hepcidinanalysis.com, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Guus A. M. Kortman
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Irma Joosten
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Alice Mwangi
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Affiliation Department of Food, Technology and Nutrition, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Michael B. Zimmermann
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Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors declare no competing financial interests. Harold Tjalsma is an employee of the Radboud University Medical Centre (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) that amongst others offers hepcidin measurements to the medical and scientific communities through a service unit called “hepcidinanalysis.com” on a fee per sample basis. This does however not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data.
Author Contributions
Managed study site and sample collection: TJ JK PAH. Conceived and designed the experiments: TJ DM JK PAH AM MBZ. Performed the experiments: TJ HT GAMK IJ. Analyzed the data: TJ DM MBZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBZ HT IJ. Wrote the paper: TJ DM MBZ.