About the Authors

Vincent T. van Hees

vincent.van-hees@newcastle.ac.uk (VTVH); soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (SB)

Affiliations Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom, MoveLab, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Lukas Gorzelniak

Affiliation Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Munich, Germany

Emmanuel Carlos Dean León

Affiliation Fakultät für Informatik, TU München, Munich, Germany

Martin Eder

Affiliation Fakultät für Informatik, TU München, Munich, Germany

Marcelo Pias

Affiliation Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Salman Taherian

Affiliation Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ulf Ekelund

Affiliations Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Frida Renström

Affiliations Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Paul W. Franks

Affiliations Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Alexander Horsch

Affiliation Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Munich, Germany

Søren Brage

vincent.van-hees@newcastle.ac.uk (VTVH); soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (SB)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Vincent van Hees, who led on this manuscript, was funded by a BBSRC industry-CASE studentship. This studentship came with funding from both the BBSRC and an industry partner, Unilever Discover Ltd in this case (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/web/FILES/Guidelines/studentship_handbook.pdf). Unilever Discover Ltd had no involvement in the study as presented and was only informed about progress and final results. 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: VVH LG ECDL ME MP ST UE FR PWF AH SB. Performed the experiments: VVH LG ME ECDL FR. Analyzed the data: VVH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VVH ECDL ME. Wrote the paper: VVH SB.