About the Authors

Martin Durisin

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Durisin, Caroline Krüger

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Caroline Krüger

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Durisin, Caroline Krüger

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Pich

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Core Facility Proteomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Athanasia Warnecke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

warnecke.athanasia@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence of the German Research Foundation (DFG; “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”) “Hearing4all”, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Melanie Steffens

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Carsten Zeilinger

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BMWZ (Zentrum für Biomolekulare Wirkstoffe), Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence of the German Research Foundation (DFG; “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”) “Hearing4all”, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Nils Prenzler

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ NP and HS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Heike Schmitt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ NP and HS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence of the German Research Foundation (DFG; “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”) “Hearing4all”, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.