About the Authors

Joern Kamradt

Contributed equally to this work with: Joern Kamradt, Volker Jung

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: joern.kamradt@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Volker Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Joern Kamradt, Volker Jung

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Kerstin Wahrheit

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Laura Tolosi

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

Joerg Rahnenfuehrer

Affiliation Statistische Methoden in der Genetik und Chemometrie Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Martin Schilling

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery, University of the Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Robert Walker

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sean Davis

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Stoeckle

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Paul Meltzer

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernd Wullich

Affiliation Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM JK VJ RW. Performed the experiments: JK VJ KW. Analyzed the data: SD JK VJ LT JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM SD MS MS BW. Wrote the paper: JK VJ BW.