About the Authors

David M. Mutch

dmutch@uoguelph.ca (DMM); dietrich.rein@metanomics-health.de (DR)

Current address: Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Affiliations Nutriomique U872 team 7, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, Paris, France

Jens C. Fuhrmann

Affiliation metanomics GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Dietrich Rein

dmutch@uoguelph.ca (DMM); dietrich.rein@metanomics-health.de (DR)

Affiliation metanomics Health GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Jan C. Wiemer

Affiliation metanomics GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Jean-Luc Bouillot

Affiliation Hôtel-Dieu Hospital Surgery Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Christine Poitou

Affiliations Nutriomique U872 team 7, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, Paris, France, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Nutrition and Endocrinology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Karine Clément

Affiliations Nutriomique U872 team 7, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, Paris, France, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Nutrition and Endocrinology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Competing Interests

Some of the authors are employed by a company (metanomics GmbH or metanomics Health GmbH); however, this work was performed purely in the spirit of a scientific collaboration and not as a service.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMM DR KC. Performed the experiments: DMM JCF DR JLB CP KC. Analyzed the data: DMM JCF JCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMM JCF DR JCW JLB CP KC. Wrote the paper: DMM JCF DR JCW KC.