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The use of fecal samples for studying human obesity

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Acknowledgments

This study was partly funded by the Top Institute Food & Nutrition (GH004) (TIFN, Wageningen, The Netherlands).

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  1. Top Institute of Food and Nutrition, PO Box 557, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Marisol Aguirre & Koen Venema

  2. Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Nutritional and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Marisol Aguirre

  3. The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), PO Box 360, 3700 AJ, Zeist, The Netherlands

    Marisol Aguirre

  4. Beneficial Microbes Consultancy, Johan Karschstraat 3, 6709 TN, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Koen Venema

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Aguirre, M., Venema, K. The use of fecal samples for studying human obesity. Eur J Epidemiol 30, 1067–1069 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0048-z

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