About the Authors

Lutz Priebe

Contributed equally to this work with: Lutz Priebe, Franziska Degenhardt

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Franziska Degenhardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Lutz Priebe, Franziska Degenhardt

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jana Strohmaier

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

René Breuer

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Stefan Herms

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Stephanie H. Witt

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Per Hoffmann

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Rebecca Kulbida

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Manuel Mattheisen

Affiliations Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute for Genomic Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susanne Moebus

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Henrik Walter

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Rainald Mössner

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Igor Nenadic

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Heinrich Sauer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Dan Rujescu

Affiliations Molecular and Clinical Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Wolfgang Maier

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Marcella Rietschel

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Markus M. Nöthen

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Sven Cichon

sven.cichon@uni-bonn.de

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, Genomic Imaging, Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany, Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: In 2007 and 2008, Heinrich Sauer received fees for board membership of Lilly and Otsuka, a travel grant from Lilly, and speaker's honoraria from Pfizer and Lilly. Consultancy fees were also received from Wyeth. All the other authors have no competing financial interests to declare, as defined by PLOS or any other interests that might be perceived to influence the results and discussion reported in this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD LP MMN SC. Performed the experiments: FD LP. Analyzed the data: FD LP RK MMN SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AML HW RB SH SM PH RM MM WM IN DR MR HS JS SHW. Wrote the paper: FD LP MMN SC.