About the Authors

Sebastian Breuert

Affiliation Goethe University, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Frankfurt, Germany

Thorsten Allers

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, United Kingdom

Gabi Spohn

Current address: Institut für Genetik, Köln, Germany

Affiliation Goethe University, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Frankfurt, Germany

Jörg Soppa

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: soppa@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Goethe University, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA SB GS. Performed the experiments: TA SB GS. Analyzed the data: TA JS SB GS. Wrote the paper: JS. Other: Supervised the theses of Sebastian Breuert and Gabi Spohn: JS.