Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2015) 39, 806–813; doi:10.1038/ijo.2015.1; published online 14 April 2015

Since the publication of the above article it has been noted that the author S O’Brien should have been listed as CS O’Brien.

The authors should therefore appear as follows:

R Dutia, M Embrey, CS O'Brien, RA Haeusler, KK Agénor, P Homel, J McGinty, RP Vincent, J Alaghband-Zadeh, B Staels, CW le Roux, J Yu and B Laferrère

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