About the Authors

Andreas Bolzer

¤ Current address: Cancer Research UK, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biology II, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Gregor Kreth

Affiliation Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Irina Solovei

Affiliation Department of Biology II, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Daniela Koehler

Affiliation Department of Biology II, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Kaan Saracoglu

Affiliation Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Christine Fauth

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Stefan Müller

Affiliation Department of Biology II, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Roland Eils

Affiliation Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Cremer

Affiliation Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael R Speicher

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Thomas Cremer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Thomas.Cremer@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Biology II, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AB, GK, IS, CF, SM, RE, CC, MRS, and TC conceived and designed the experiments. AB, GK, DK, and SM performed the experiments. AB, DK, KS, and MRS analyzed the data. AB and SM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AB, GK, IS, MRS, and TC wrote the paper.