About the Authors

Marlon R. Schneider

Contributed equally to this work with: Marlon R. Schneider, Maik Dahlhoff, David Horst

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Maik Dahlhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Marlon R. Schneider, Maik Dahlhoff, David Horst

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

David Horst

Contributed equally to this work with: Marlon R. Schneider, Maik Dahlhoff, David Horst

Current address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Benjamin Hirschi

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Konrad Trülzsch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Pettenkofer Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Josef Müller-Höcker

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Roger Vogelmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Michael Allgäuer

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Markus Gerhard

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Sylvia Steininger

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Eckhard Wolf

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Frank T. Kolligs

fkolligs@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS MD DH RV MG EW FTK. Performed the experiments: MRS MD DH BH KT JMH RV MA MG SS. Analyzed the data: MRS MD DH BH KT JMH RV MA MG SS EW FTK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRS JMH RV FTK. Wrote the paper: MRS FTK.