About the Authors
- Tobias Eisenberger
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Christian Decker
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Milan Hiersche
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Ruben C. Hamann
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Eva Decker
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Steffen Neuber
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Valeska Frank
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Hanno J. Bolz
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Affiliation Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany
- Henry Fehrenbach
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Memmingen, Memmingen, Germany
- Lars Pape
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Affiliation Clinic for Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, MHH Hannover, Germany
- Burkhard Toenshoff
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics I, University Children’s Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
- Christoph Mache
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Graz, Austria
- Kay Latta
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Affiliation Clementine Children’s Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
- Carsten Bergmann
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* E-mail: carsten.bergmann@bioscientia.de
Affiliations Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics, Ingelheim, Germany, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University Freiburg Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
Competing Interests
TE, CD, MH, RCH, ED, SN, VF, HJB and CB are employees of Bioscientia, which is part of a publicly traded diagnostic company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the guide for authors. Bioscientia as a company did not influence the choice of experiments performed and choice of data presented in the manuscript. At any time, the authors had unrestricted access to all data. All data were interpreted and presented in an unbiased manner.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CB TE CD MH. Performed the experiments: TE CD MH. Analyzed the data: TE CD MH RCH ED SN VF KL CB LP HF BT CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TE CD MH HJB KL CB LP HF BT CM. Wrote the paper: TE CB.