About the Authors

Matthias K. Auer

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias K. Auer, Johannes Fuss

mauer@mpipsykl.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Johannes Fuss

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias K. Auer, Johannes Fuss

Affiliation Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Nina Höhne

Affiliation Department Molecular Psychology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Günter K. Stalla

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Caroline Sievers

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Clinical Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA CS GK. Performed the experiments: MA JF. Analyzed the data: MA JF NH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK. Wrote the paper: MA JF.