About the Authors

Anja Pfeifer

Current address: Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1091, Institut de Biologie Valrose (IBV), Diabetes Genetics Team, Nice, France

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Applied Biosciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Bettina Martin

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Applied Biosciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Jörg Kämper

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Applied Biosciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Christoph W. Basse

christoph.basse@kit.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Applied Biosciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB AP. Performed the experiments: AP CB BM. Analyzed the data: CB AP JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK CB. Wrote the paper: CB. Bioinformatic analyses: CB.