About the Authors

Jürgen Glas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Human Genetics, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

Julia Seiderer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Stephanie Bues

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Johannes Stallhofer

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Christoph Fries

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Torsten Olszak

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Eleni Tsekeri

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Martin Wetzke

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

Florian Beigel

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Christian Steib

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Matthias Friedrich

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Julia Diegelmann

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Darina Czamara

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Stephan Brand

stephan.brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Organizing the collaboration between the different centers: S. Brand. Conceived and designed the experiments: JG S. Brand. Performed the experiments: JG S. Bues J. Stallhofer CF ET MW. Analyzed the data: JG DC S. Brand. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG J. Seiderer FB CS MF TO BG JD DC S. Brand. Wrote the paper: JS S. Brand JG DC.