About the Authors

Michal R. Schweiger

mschweig@molgen.mpg.de

Affiliations Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Martin Kerick

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Bernd Timmermann

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Marcus W. Albrecht

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Tatjana Borodina

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Dmitri Parkhomchuk

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Kurt Zatloukal

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University, Graz, Austria

Hans Lehrach

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS KZ HL. Performed the experiments: MRS BT TB. Analyzed the data: MRS MK BT MWA DP KZ HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRS MK BT MWA TB DP KZ HL. Wrote the paper: MRS MK KZ.