About the Authors

Martina Wiesner

Contributed equally to this work with: Martina Wiesner, Caroline Zentz

Current address: Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands,

Affiliation Clinical Cooperative Group Molecular Oncology, GSF - National Research Center and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Caroline Zentz

Contributed equally to this work with: Martina Wiesner, Caroline Zentz

Affiliation Clinical Cooperative Group Molecular Oncology, GSF - National Research Center and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Christine Mayr

Current address: Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany

Rainer Wimmer

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt

Affiliation Department of Gene Vectors, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

Reinhard Zeidler

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Andreas Moosmann

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: moosmann@gsf.de

Affiliation Clinical Cooperative Group Molecular Oncology, GSF - National Research Center and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH AM MW CZ RZ. Performed the experiments: AM MW CZ CM RW. Analyzed the data: AM MW CZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM RW. Wrote the paper: AM.