About the Authors

Markus Draaken

reutter@uni-bonn.de

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Michael Knapp

reutter@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Tracie Pennimpede

reutter@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Department of Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Johanna M. Schmidt

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

Anne-Karolin Ebert

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany

Wolfgang Rösch

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Urology, St. Hedwig Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Germany

Raimund Stein

Affiliation Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Boris Utsch

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics and Neonatology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Karin Hirsch

Affiliation Department of Urology, Division of Paediatric Urology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Thomas M. Boemers

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology, Children’s Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Elisabeth Mangold

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

Stefanie Heilmann

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Kerstin U. Ludwig

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ekkehart Jenetzky

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Nadine Zwink

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Susanne Moebus

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Bernhard G. Herrmann

Affiliation Department of Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Manuel Mattheisen

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Genomic Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Markus M. Nöthen

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Michael Ludwig

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Ludwig, Heiko Reutter

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Heiko Reutter

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Ludwig, Heiko Reutter

reutter@uni-bonn.de

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HR MD MK TP MMN. Performed the experiments: MD TP JMS. Analyzed the data: MD TP JMS MK MM ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK AKE WR RS BU KH TMB SH EM KUL SM EJ NZ BGH HR. Wrote the paper: MD MK TP MMN ML HR.