About the Authors

Jürgen Glas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Human Genetics, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Julia Seiderer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

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

Darina Czamara

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Giulia Pasciuto

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

Julia Diegelmann

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Martin Wetzke

Affiliation Center for Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Torsten Olszak

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

Christiane Wolf

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Tobias Balschun

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Jean-Paul Achkar

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

M. Ilyas Kamboh

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andre Franke

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Richard H. Duerr

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephan Brand

Stephan.Brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG TB JPA MIK AF RHD SB. Performed the experiments: JG GP JD MW TB JPA MIK AF RHD. Analyzed the data: JD DC GP CW BMM TB JPA MIK AF RHD SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG DC JD TO CW BMM TB JPA MIK AF RHD SB. Wrote the paper: JS JG SB. Organized the collaboration between the different centers: SB.