About the Authors

Gwendolyn Eich

Contributed equally to this work with: Gwendolyn Eich, Maria Bartosova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Maria Bartosova

Contributed equally to this work with: Gwendolyn Eich, Maria Bartosova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Tischer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Tanja Tamara Wlodkowski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Betti Schaefer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sebastian Pichl

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Nicole Kraewer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Bruno Ranchin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Service de Néphrologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

Karel Vondrak

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic

Max Christoph Liebau

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Molecular Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thilo Hackert

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Claus Peter Schmitt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

claus.peter.schmitt@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

I (Claus Peter Schmitt) obtained lecturing and consulting honoraria (Baxter, Fresenius Medical Care) and financial research support (Fresenius Medical Care, Amgen). Maria Bartosova was supported by the European Training and Research in Peritoneal Dialysis Programme, funded by the European Union within the Marie Curie Scheme (287813). http://www.eutripd.eu. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.