About the Authors

Oliver Fiehn

Affiliation Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

W. Timothy Garvey

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John W. Newman

Affiliations Obesity and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Western Human Nutrition Research Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kerry H. Lok

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Charles L. Hoppel

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sean H. Adams

sean.h.adams@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations Obesity and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Western Human Nutrition Research Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHA WTG KHL. Performed the experiments: OF WTG KHL CLH. Analyzed the data: SHA OF JWN WTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OF JWN WTG CLH. Wrote the paper: SHA.