About the Authors

Julia Brenndörfer

jbrenndoerfer@mpipsykl.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

André Altmann

Current address: Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Regina Widner-Andrä

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Benno Pütz

Affiliation Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Darina Czamara

Affiliation Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Erik Tilch

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Tony Kam-Thong

Affiliation Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Peter Weber

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics of Affective Disorders, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Monika Rex-Haffner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics of Affective Disorders, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Thomas Bettecken

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Andrea Bultmann

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliation Department of Statistical Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Elisabeth E. Binder

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics of Affective Disorders, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Rainer Landgraf

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Ludwig Czibere

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB RW PW TB AB EB RL LC. Performed the experiments: JB RW PW MR. Analyzed the data: AA BP DC ET TK BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB RL. Wrote the paper: JB AA BP.