About the Authors

Jean-Philippe Chaput

jpchaput@cheo.on.ca

Affiliation Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jessica McNeil

Affiliation Behavioural and Metabolic Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Pierre Després

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Claude Bouchard

Affiliation Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Angelo Tremblay

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-PD CB AT. Performed the experiments: J-PD CB AT. Analyzed the data: J-PC. Wrote the paper: J-PC. Interpreted the data: J-PC JM J-PD CB AT. Revised the manuscript: J-PC JM J-PD CB AT.