About the Authors

Manuel Luedeke

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Luedeke, Irina Coinac

Affiliations Department of Urology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Irina Coinac

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Luedeke, Irina Coinac

Affiliation Radiation Oncology and Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Carmen M. Linnert

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Natalia Bogdanova

Affiliation Radiation Oncology and Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Antje E. Rinckleb

Affiliations Department of Urology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Mark Schrader

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

Walther Vogel

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Josef Hoegel

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Andreas Meyer

Affiliation Radiation Oncology and Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thilo Dörk

Affiliation Radiation Oncology and Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christiane Maier

christiane.maier@uni-ulm.de

Affiliations Department of Urology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML WV TD CM. Performed the experiments: ML IC CL NB AR. Analyzed the data: ML JH AM TD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS WV AM TD. Wrote the paper: ML TD CM. Probands enrolment/clinical data management: MS AM TD.