About the Authors

Jens Christian Claussen

j.claussen@jacobs-university.de (JCC); a.franke@mucosa.de (AF); m.huett@jacobs-university.de (MTH)

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology, Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, D-28759 Bremen, Germany

Jurgita Skiecevičienė

Affiliations Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Jun Wang

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Philipp Rausch

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, D-24306 Plön, Germany

Tom H. Karlsen

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Postbox 1171 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway, Norwegian PSC Research Center, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, Surgery and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Postbox 4950 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway

Wolfgang Lieb

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Biobank PopGen, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

John F. Baines

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, D-24306 Plön, Germany

Andre Franke

j.claussen@jacobs-university.de (JCC); a.franke@mucosa.de (AF); m.huett@jacobs-university.de (MTH)

Affiliation Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Marc-Thorsten Hütt

j.claussen@jacobs-university.de (JCC); a.franke@mucosa.de (AF); m.huett@jacobs-university.de (MTH)

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology, Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, D-28759 Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MTH JCC AF JS JW JFB. Data curation: AF JS JW WL JFB JCC MTH. Formal analysis: JCC MTH. Funding acquisition: MTH. Investigation: JCC MTH AF JFB JW JS THK. Methodology: JCC MTH. Resources: AF WL. Software: JCC MTH. Validation: JCC MTH AF. Visualization: JCC MTH. Writing – original draft: JCC MTH. Writing – review & editing: JCC MTH AF PR JFB.