About the Authors

Michaela S. Helmbrecht

Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela S. Helmbrecht, Heidi Soellner

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Heidi Soellner

Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela S. Helmbrecht, Heidi Soellner

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Maria A. Castiblanco-Urbina

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Stefan Winzeck

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Julia Sundermeier

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Fabian J. Theis

Affiliations Institute for Computational Biology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Karim Fouad

Affiliation Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Andrea B. Huber

andrea.huber@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSH HS ABH. Performed the experiments: MSH HS MACU SW JS. Analyzed the data: MSH HS FJT KF ABH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJT ABH. Wrote the paper: MSH HS ABH.