About the Authors

Franziska Welzel

Affiliations Otto Warburg Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Kaehler

Affiliations Otto Warburg Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Melanie Isau

Affiliations Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Linda Hallen

Affiliation Otto Warburg Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Hans Lehrach

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

Sylvia Krobitsch

krobitsc@molgen.mpg.de

Affiliation Otto Warburg Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FW CK MI LH SK. Performed the experiments: FW CK MI LH. Analyzed the data: FW CK MI LH SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL. Wrote the paper: FW CK SK.