About the Authors

Nannan Liao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China

Till Koehne

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jan Tuckermann

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Comparative Molecular Endocrinology, University Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Ioanna Triviai

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Amling

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jean-Pierre David

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Schinke

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Schinke, Julia Luther

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

schinke@uke.de (TS); j.luther@uke.de (JL)

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Julia Luther

Contributed equally to this work with: Thorsten Schinke, Julia Luther

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

schinke@uke.de (TS); j.luther@uke.de (JL)

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.