About the Authors

Hansjörg Baurecht

hbaurecht@dermatology.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Melanie Hotze

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Elke Rodríguez

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Judith Manz

Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Stephan Weidinger

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Heather J. Cordell

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Thomas Augustin

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Augustin, Konstantin Strauch

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

Konstantin Strauch

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Augustin, Konstantin Strauch

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB KS TA. Analyzed the data: HB MH. Wrote the paper: HB KS TA HJC ER SW JM.