About the Authors

Hauke Thomsen

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

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology (C050), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

Michael Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany

Sabine Ponader

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany

Elke Pogge von Strandmann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany

Lewin Eisele

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45122, Germany

Stefan Herms

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

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, 50924, Germany

Kari Hemminki

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

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.