About the Authors

Jürgen Glas

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Julia Seiderer

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

Martin Wetzke

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Astrid Konrad

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

Helga-Paula Török

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

Silke Schmechel

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

Laurian Tonenchi

Affiliation Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Christine Grassl

Affiliation Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Julia Dambacher

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

Simone Pfennig

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

Kerstin Maier

Affiliation Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Griga

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Wolfram Klein

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Jörg T. Epplen

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Uwe Schiemann

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Christian Folwaczny

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Peter Lohse

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

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

Thomas Ochsenkühn

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

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Matthias Folwaczny

Affiliation Clinic for Preventive Dentistry and Parodontology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Mussack

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Stephan Brand

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: stephan.brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB JG JS. Performed the experiments: JG MW SS LT CG JD KM PL. Analyzed the data: BM SB JG JS MW HT SP WK JE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB JG JS AK HT TG WK JE US CF PL BG TO MF TM. Wrote the paper: SB JG JS PL. Other: Organized collaboration between the different institutions: SB.