About the Authors
- Anke Doyon
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* E-mail: anke.doyon@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
- Dagmar-Christiane Fischer
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Aysun Karabay Bayazit
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Cukurova University, School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
- Nur Canpolat
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
- Ali Duzova
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Dpt. of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
- Betül Sözeri
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey
- Justine Bacchetta
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Affiliation Centre de Référence des Maladies Rénales Rares, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France
- Ayse Balat
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey
- Anja Büscher
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Children’s Hospital, Essen, Germany
- Cengiz Candan
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
- Nilgun Cakar
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Affiliation Diskapi Children’s Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
- Osman Donmez
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey
- Jiri Dusek
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Affiliation Pediatric Hospital, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
- Martina Heckel
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Affiliation University Children’s Hospital, Hamburg, Germany
- Günter Klaus
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Affiliation KfH Kidney Center for Children, Marburg, Germany
- Sevgi Mir
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey
- Gül Özcelik
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Sisli Educational and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
- Lale Sever
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
- Rukshana Shroff
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Enrico Vidal
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Affiliation Dialysis and Transplantation Department of Pediatrics, Padova, Italy
- Elke Wühl
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Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
- Matthias Gondan
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Anette Melk
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Affiliations Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Uwe Querfeld
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Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Nephrology, Charite Children’s Hospital, Berlin, Germany
- Dieter Haffner
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Franz Schaefer
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¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
- for the 4C Study Consortium
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¶Membership of the 4C Study Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
We have the following interests. This study was partly funded by Pfizer Deutschland GmbH. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AD DF DH FS. Performed the experiments: AD DF AKB NCan ADu BS JB ABa ABü CC NCak OD JD MH GK SM GÖ LS RS EV EW AM UQ. Analyzed the data: AD MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF MG. Wrote the paper: AD DF DH FS.