About the Authors

Diana Zahnleiter

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Steffen Uebe

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Arif B. Ekici

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Juliane Hoyer

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Antje Wiesener

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Dagmar Wieczorek

Affiliation Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Erdmute Kunstmann

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

André Reis

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Helmuth-Guenther Doerr

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Anita Rauch

Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Schwerzenbach-Zurich, Switzerland

Christian T. Thiel

Christian.Thiel@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT Thiel, A Rauch, A Reis. Performed the experiments: CT Thiel, D Zahnleiter, S Uebe. Analyzed the data: D Zahnleiter, S Uebe. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB Ekici, H-G Doerr. Wrote the paper: D Zahnleiter, CT Thiel. Collected samples: CT Thiel, D Wieczorek, E Kunstmann, J Hoyer, A Wiesener, H-G Doerr.