About the Authors
- Fabian Frost
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Lena J. Storck
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Tim Kacprowski
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
- Simone Gärtner
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Malte Rühlemann
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Corinna Bang
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Andre Franke
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Uwe Völker
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Ali A. Aghdassi
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Antje Steveling
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Julia Mayerle
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Frank U. Weiss
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Georg Homuth
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Markus M. Lerch
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: lerch@uni-greifswald.de
Affiliation Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Competing Interests
Nestlé Health Science Germany granted the study participants a 15% discount to the Optifast formula diet. LS received a Gerhard Domagk scholarship from University Medicine Greifswald made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Baxter Deutschland GmbH (Unterschleissheim, Germany), Profusio GmbH (Greven, Germany) and Nutricia GmbH (Erlangen, Germany). This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.