About the Authors

Arnd Gross

arnd.gross@imise.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Marita Ziepert

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Scholz

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE – Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: AG MS. Idea and programme specification: MZ. Development of the programme: AG MZ MS. Implementation of the programme: AG. Contribution to writing and discussion: MZ.