About the Authors

Julia Diegelmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Diegelmann, Darina Czamara, Jürgen Glas, Stephan Brand

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Darina Czamara

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Diegelmann, Darina Czamara, Jürgen Glas, Stephan Brand

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

Emmanuelle Le Bras

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Eva Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Torsten Olszak

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Bedynek

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Andre Franke

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

Jürgen Glas

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Diegelmann, Darina Czamara, Jürgen Glas, Stephan Brand

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

Stephan Brand

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Diegelmann, Darina Czamara, Jürgen Glas, Stephan Brand

stephan.brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD ELB EZ AF JG SB. Performed the experiments: JD ELB EZ AB AF JG. Analyzed the data: JD DC JG SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TO BG JG SB. Wrote the paper: JD DC JG SB.