About the Authors

Andreas Oberbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Oberbach, Nadine Schlichting

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Nadine Schlichting

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Oberbach, Nadine Schlichting

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Matthias Blüher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Kovacs

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Holger Till

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jochen Neuhaus

jochen.neuhaus@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AO NS JN. Performed the experiments: AO NS JN. Analyzed the data: AO NS PK JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO MB PK HT JUS JN. Wrote the paper: AO NS MB PK JUS JN.