About the Authors

Sebastian E. B. Graefe

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: graefe@bni-hamburg.de

Affiliations Institute for Immunology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Streichert

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Hamburg, Germany

Birgit S. Budde

Affiliation Cologne Center of Genomics and Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Peter Nürnberg

Affiliation Cologne Center of Genomics and Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Christiane Steeg

Affiliation Department for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Psychiatry, München, Germany

Bernhard Fleischer

Affiliations Institute for Immunology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG BM BF. Performed the experiments: SG BB CS TS. Analyzed the data: SG BB CS BM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG BB PN TS BF. Wrote the paper: SG.