About the Authors

Nina Winter

Affiliation Centre for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Rolf Nimzyk

Affiliation Centre for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Carolin Bösche

Affiliation Centre for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Anke Meyer

Affiliation Centre for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Jörn Bullerdiek

bullerd@uni-bremen.de

Affiliations Centre for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Clinic for Small Animals and Research Cluster REBIRTH, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW RN CB JB. Performed the experiments: NW CB AM. Analyzed the data: NW RN CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RN JB. Wrote the paper: NW RN JB.