About the Authors

Christine Herold

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Herold, Alfredo Ramirez

Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alfredo Ramirez

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Herold, Alfredo Ramirez

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dmitriy Drichel

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

André Lacour

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Tatsiana Vaitsiakhovich

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Markus M. Nöthen

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Frank Jessen

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Wolfgang Maier

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

Tim Becker

Tim.Becker@dzne.de

Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany, Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB CH AR FJ MMN WM. Performed the experiments: TB CH AR. Analyzed the data: CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TV DD AL AR MMN FJ WM. Wrote the paper: CH AR TB.