About the Authors

Jochen Schulze

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Schulze, Sebastian Seitz, Hiroaki Saito

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

Sebastian Seitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Schulze, Sebastian Seitz, Hiroaki Saito

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

Hiroaki Saito

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Schulze, Sebastian Seitz, Hiroaki Saito

Affiliation Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Schneebauer

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

Robert P. Marshall

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

Anke Baranowsky

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

Bjoern Busse

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

Arndt F. Schilling

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

Felix W. Friedrich

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

Joachim Albers

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

Alexander S. Spiro

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

Jozef Zustin

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Streichert

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Kristina Ellwanger

Affiliation Division of Molecular Embryology, Research Program Cell and Tumor Biology of the German Cancer Research Center and the Center for Molecular Biology of the University of Heidelberg (DKFZ-ZMBH) Alliance, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Christof Niehrs

Affiliation Division of Molecular Embryology, Research Program Cell and Tumor Biology of the German Cancer Research Center and the Center for Molecular Biology of the University of Heidelberg (DKFZ-ZMBH) Alliance, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Amling

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

Roland Baron

Affiliation Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thorsten Schinke

schinke@uke.uni-hamburg.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA RB. Performed the experiments: JS SS HS MS RPM AB BB AFS FF JA AS. Analyzed the data: TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ KE CN. Wrote the paper: TS.