About the Authors

Darina Czamara

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

Carla M. T. Tiesler

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology I, Neuherberg, Germany, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Munich, Germany

Gabriele Kohlböck

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology I, Neuherberg, Germany

Dietrich Berdel

Affiliation Marien-Hospital Wesel, Department of Pediatrics, Wesel, Germany

Barbara Hoffmann

Affiliation IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Carl-Peter Bauer

Affiliation Technical University of Munich, Department of Pediatrics, Munich, Germany

Sibylle Koletzko

Affiliation Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Munich, Germany

Beate Schaaf

Affiliation Medical Practice for Pediatrics, Bad Honnef, Germany

Irina Lehmann

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department for Environmental Immunology, Leipzig, Germany

Olf Herbarth

Affiliation University of Leipzig, Faculty of Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Hygiene, Leipzig, Germany

Andrea von Berg

Affiliation Marien-Hospital Wesel, Department of Pediatrics, Wesel, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany

Gerd Schulte-Körne

Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Joachim Heinrich

heinrich@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology I, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH. Performed the experiments: GK DB BH C-PB SK BS IL OH AvB. Analyzed the data: DC CMTT BM-M GS-K JH. Wrote the paper: DC CMTT GK DB BH C-PB SK BS IL OH AvB BM-M GS-K JH.