About the Authors
- Petra Seemann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Petra Seemann, Anja Brehm
* E-mail: petra.seemann@charite.de
Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Anja Brehm
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Contributed equally to this work with: Petra Seemann, Anja Brehm
Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Jana König
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Carsten Reissner
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Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy and Molecular Neurobiology, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany
- Sigmar Stricker
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Affiliation Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany
- Pia Kuss
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Julia Haupt
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Stephanie Renninger
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Joachim Nickel
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Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Physiologische Chemie II, Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften (Biozentrum) der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Walter Sebald
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Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Physiologische Chemie II, Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften (Biozentrum) der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Jay C. Groppe
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Frank Plöger
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Affiliation Biopharm GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jens Pohl
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Affiliation Biopharm GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
- Mareen Schmidt-von Kegler
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Maria Walther
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Affiliation Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany
- Ingmar Gassner
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Affiliation Department für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Cristina Rusu
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Affiliation Medical Genetics Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania
- Andreas R. Janecke
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Affiliation Sektion für Klinische Genetik, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Katarina Dathe
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Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Stefan Mundlos
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Affiliations Research Group Development and Disease, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Medizinische Genetik, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The Co-authors Jens Pohl and Frank Plöger are employees of the company Biopharm GmbH as indicated in the affiliation. Biopharm GmbH is a 100% privately owned company. The Co-authors Frank Plöger, Jens Pohl and Stefan Mundlos have filed a patent on the GDF5 variant N445T (US 2008/0260830A1).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: P Seemann, K Dathe, S Mundlos. Performed the experiments: P Seemann, A Brehm, J König, S Stricker, J Nickel, F Plöger, M Schmidt-von Kegler, M Walther. Analyzed the data: P Seemann, A Brehm, J König, C Reissner, J Haupt, J Nickel, W Sebald, JC Groppe, F Plöger, J Pohl, K Dathe. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P Seemann, C Reissner, W Sebald, F Plöger, J Pohl, I Gassner, C Rusu, AR Janecke, K Dathe, S Mundlos. Wrote the paper: P Seemann, S Mundlos.