About the Authors

Elisa Degenkolbe

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa Degenkolbe, Jana König

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jana König

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisa Degenkolbe, Jana König

Current address: Roche Diagnostics International AG, Rotkreuz, Switzerland.

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julia Zimmer

Current address: Section of Clinical Allergology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany.

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Maria Walther

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Carsten Reißner

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Dept. Anatomy and Molecular Neurobiology, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany

Joachim Nickel

Affiliations Lehrstuhl für Physiologische Chemie II, Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften (Biozentrum) der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Frank Plöger

Affiliation Biopharm GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Jelena Raspopovic

Affiliations EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

James Sharpe

Affiliations EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Katarina Dathe

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jacqueline T. Hecht

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stefan Mundlos

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Research Group Development and Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Sandra C. Doelken

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Petra Seemann

petra.seemann@charite.de

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Research Group Development and Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Frank Plöger is an employee of the company Biopharm GmbH as indicated in the affiliation. Biopharm GmbH is a 100% privately owned company. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS. Performed the experiments: ED JK JZ MW JN JR. Analyzed the data: ED JK JZ MW CR JN FP JR JS KD JTH SM SCD PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR JN FP JS JTH SM SCD PS. Wrote the paper: ED PS.