About the Authors

Jingchen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingchen Chen, Fangping Dai

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Fangping Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingchen Chen, Fangping Dai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Embryology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

Ajeesh Balakrishnan-Renuka

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

Florian Leese

Current address: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Werner Schempp

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

Felix Schaller

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

Michael M. Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

Gabriela Morosan-Puopolo

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Faisal Yusuf

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Izak Johannes Bisschoff

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

Verena Chankiewitz

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Jinglun Xue

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jingzhong Chen

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Kang Ying

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Beate Brand-Saberi

Beate.Brand-Saberi@rub.de

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Molecular Embryology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD BB-S. Performed the experiments: JC (Jingchen Chen) AB-R WS FS MMH GM-P FY IJB. Analyzed the data: JC(Jingchen Chen) FD FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC (Jingzhong Chen) JX, KY. Wrote the paper: JC (Jingchen Chen) FD BB-S. Revision of the manuscript: BB-S, JC (Jingchen Chen), FL, WS, VC.