About the Authors

Matthias Arnold

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Arnold, Daniel C. Ellwanger

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Daniel C. Ellwanger

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Arnold, Daniel C. Ellwanger

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Chair of Genome-Oriented Bioinformatics, Technische Universität München, Center of Life and Food Science, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Mara L. Hartsperger

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Arne Pfeufer

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German National Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy - Affiliated Institute of the University Lübeck, Germany

Volker Stümpflen

v.stuempflen@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA DCE MLH VS AP. Performed the experiments: MA DCE. Analyzed the data: MA DCE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA DCE. Wrote the paper: MA DCE AP.