About the Authors

Heike Junker

Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Junker, Simone Venz

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Simone Venz

Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Junker, Simone Venz

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Interfacultary Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Uwe Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Andrea Thiele

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Christian Scharf

Affiliations Interfacultary Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Reinhard Walther

rwalther@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ SV CS UZ RW. Performed the experiments: HJ SV CS AT UZ. Analyzed the data: HJ SV CS AT. Wrote the paper: HJ SV CS AT RW.