About the Authors

Travis J. Saunders

tsaunders@cheo.on.ca

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mark S. Tremblay

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, 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

Jean-Philippe Chaput

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed the statistical analysis: TJS JPC MST. Revised manuscript: JPC MST CB AT JPD TJS. Conceived and designed the experiments: CB JPD AT. Performed the experiments: CB JPD AT. Analyzed the data: TJS. Wrote the paper: TJS.