About the Authors

Pablo Perez-Martinez

Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Perez-Martinez, Javier Delgado-Lista

Affiliation Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, IMIBIC/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Cordoba, Spain

Javier Delgado-Lista

Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Perez-Martinez, Javier Delgado-Lista

Affiliation Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, IMIBIC/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Cordoba, Spain

Antonio Garcia-Rios

Affiliation Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, IMIBIC/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Cordoba, Spain

Jolene Mc Monagle

Affiliation Nutrigenomics Research Group, UCD School of Public Health and Population Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Hanne L. Gulseth

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Jose M. Ordovas

Affiliations Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional Investigación Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Danielle I. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences and the Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR), University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Brita Karlström

Affiliation Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Beata Kiec-Wilk

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, and Department of Metabolic Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Ellen E. Blaak

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Olfa Helal

Affiliation INSERM 476, Lipid nutrients and prevention of metabolic diseases, INRA, 1260, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Małgorzata Malczewska-Malec

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, and Department of Metabolic Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Catherine Defoort

Affiliation INSERM 476, Lipid nutrients and prevention of metabolic diseases, INRA, 1260, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Ulf Risérus

Affiliation Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Wim H. M. Saris

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Julie A. Lovegrove

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences and the Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR), University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Christian A. Drevon

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Helen M. Roche

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nutrigenomics Research Group, UCD School of Public Health and Population Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Jose Lopez-Miranda

jlopezmir@uco.es

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, IMIBIC/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Cordoba, Spain

Competing Interests

Author Christian A. Drevon has a relationship with Aktieselskabet Freia Chocolade Fabrik's Medical Foundation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP-M JD-L CD UR WHMS JAL CAD HMR JL-M. Performed the experiments: PP-M JD-L AG-R JMM HLG. Analyzed the data: PP-M JD-L AG-R DIS BK BK-W EEB OH MM-M. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP-M JD-L AG-R HLG DIS BK BK-W EEB OH MM-M. Wrote the paper: PP-M JD-L JMO HMR JL-M.