About the Authors

Alice Matone

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Matone, Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer

Affiliation The Microsoft Research—University of Trento Centre for Computational Systems Biology (COSBI), Rovereto, Italy

Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alice Matone, Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer

Affiliation The Microsoft Research—University of Trento Centre for Computational Systems Biology (COSBI), Rovereto, Italy

Jerome Carayol

Affiliation Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

Parastoo Fazelzadeh

Affiliation Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics group, University of Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands

Gregory Lefebvre

Affiliation Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

Armand Valsesia

Affiliation Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

Celine Charon

Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute- National Genotyping Center, Evry, France

Jacques Vervoort

Affiliation Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics group, University of Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands

Arne Astrup

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wim H. M. Saris

Affiliation Dept of Human Biology Medical and Health Science Faculty, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands

Melissa Morine

Affiliation The Microsoft Research—University of Trento Centre for Computational Systems Biology (COSBI), Rovereto, Italy

Jörg Hager

Jorg.Hager@rd.nestle.com

Affiliation Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Dr. Astrup is currently member of advisory boards for Dutch Beer Knowledge Institute, NL Gelesis, USA; IKEA Food Scientific Health Advisory Board, SV; McCain Foods, USA, McDonald’s, USA, pathway Genomics, USA, Weight Watchers, USA, and is consulting for Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA; Basic Research, USA; BioCare Copenhagen, DK; Lucozade Ribena Suntory Ltd, UK; Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland; Nongfu Spring Water, China; Novo Nordisk, DK; Omega ACO, Sverige; Orexigen Therapeutics Inc, USA; and has received funding for other studies from about 100 food companies covering all food groups. Dr. Saris has received research grants and food donations from several food companies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JV AA WHMS JH. Performed the experiments: PF GL AV CC. Analyzed the data: AM MPSB PF MM JC. Wrote the paper: AM MPSB JH.