About the Authors

Samira Zeynalova

Contributed equally to this work with: Samira Zeynalova, Karolin Bucksch

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations LIFE–Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Karolin Bucksch

Contributed equally to this work with: Samira Zeynalova, Karolin Bucksch

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

karolin.bucksch@imise.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Scholz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations LIFE–Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Melanie Gross

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, DRK-Krankenhaus Chemnitz-Rabenstein, Chemnitz, Germany

Markus Löffler

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations LIFE–Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Susanne Melzer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations LIFE–Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Zentrum für Klinische Studien, ZKS Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Attila Tárnok

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations LIFE–Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department for Therapy Validation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Markus Scholz receives funding from Pfizer Inc. for a project not related to this research. The remaining authors have nothing to disclose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.