About the Authors

Damianos P. Melidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Damianos P. Melidis, Christian Landgraf

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

melidis@l3s.uni-hannover.de (DPM); Auber.Bernd@mh-hannover.de (BA)

Affiliation L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Christian Landgraf

Contributed equally to this work with: Damianos P. Melidis, Christian Landgraf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gunnar Schmidt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anja Schöner-Heinisch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sandra von Hardenberg

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anke Lesinski-Schiedat

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Wolfgang Nejdl

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

‡ WN and BA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Knowledge-based Systems Laboratory, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Bernd Auber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

melidis@l3s.uni-hannover.de (DPM); Auber.Bernd@mh-hannover.de (BA)

‡ WN and BA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.