About the Authors
- Hauke Thomsen
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* E-mail: h.thomsen@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Affiliation German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology (C050), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
- Miguel Inacio da Silva Filho
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Affiliation German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology (C050), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
- Michael Fuchs
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany
- Sabine Ponader
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany
- Elke Pogge von Strandmann
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany
- Lewin Eisele
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Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45122, Germany
- Stefan Herms
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Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics and Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, 53127, Germany, Department of Biomedicine, Division of Medical Genetics, Basel, University of Basel, 4058, Switzerland
- Per Hoffmann
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Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics and Department of Genomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, 53127, Germany, Department of Biomedicine, Division of Medical Genetics, Basel, University of Basel, 4058, Switzerland
- Andreas Engert
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany
- Kari Hemminki
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Affiliations German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology (C050), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, 20502, Sweden
- Asta Försti
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Affiliations German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology (C050), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, 20502, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ES AE KH AF. Performed the experiments: MF SP LE SH PH. Analyzed the data: HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF SP ES LE SH PH AE. Wrote the paper: HT AF KH. Methods: MI.