About the Authors

Ulrich Grabmaier

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Grabmaier, Hans D. Theiss

Ulrich.Grabmaier@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Hans D. Theiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Grabmaier, Hans D. Theiss

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Alexandra Keithahn

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany

Julia Kreiner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Christoph Brenner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Bruno Huber

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Christine von der Helm

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Lisa Gross

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Karin Klingel

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Wolfgang-M. Franz

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Stefan Brunner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Campus Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UG HT AK JK KK SB. Performed the experiments: UG AK JK CB CH BH SB. Analyzed the data: UG HT AK JK CH KK WF SB LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UG HT KK WF SB. Wrote the paper: UG HT CB CH SB LG.