About the Authors

Vikash Pandey

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Marc Sultan

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Karl Kashofer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Meryem Ralser

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Julia Starmann

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Ingrid Osprian

Affiliations BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck, Austria, LKH Wagna, Department of Internal Medicine, Wagna, Austria

Christina Grimm

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Hendrik Hache

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Marie-Laure Yaspo

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany, Dahlem Centre for Genome Research and Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany

Holger Sültmann

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Trauner

Affiliation Hans Popper Laboratory of Molecular Hepatology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Helmut Denk

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Kurt Zatloukal

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Hans Lehrach

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany, Dahlem Centre for Genome Research and Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany

Christoph Wierling

wierling@molgen.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department Vertebrate Genomics, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Co-author Ingrid Osprian was employed by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG during the runtime of the IMGuS project where she did the metabolic analysis presented in this manuscript. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: MS KK JS IO MLY HS MT KZ HL CW. Performed the experiments: VP MS KK JS IO. Analyzed the data: VP MS HD KZ KK MR VA JS IO CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS KK JS IO HH CW. Wrote the paper: VP MS CG CW.