About the Authors

Elhaseen Elamin

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ad Masclee

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Kati Juuti-Uusitalo

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Sven van IJzendoorn

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Freddy Troost

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Harm-Jan Pieters

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jan Dekker

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Daisy Jonkers

d.jonkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Interpretation of data and critical revision of the manuscript: EE DJ JD SI AM. Technical support: KJ JD HJP SI. Conceived and designed the experiments: EE AM KJ SI FT JD DJ. Performed the experiments: EE. Analyzed the data: EE DJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM DJ HJP. Wrote the paper: EE DJ.