About the Authors

Clemens D. Cohen

Contributed equally to this work with: Clemens D. Cohen, Maja T. Lindenmeyer, Thomas Werner, Peter J. Nelson

Affiliations Nephrology Clinic and Institute of Physiology with Center of Integrative Human Physiology, University Hospital and University, Zurich, Switzerland, Clinical Biochemistry Group, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Maja T. Lindenmeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Clemens D. Cohen, Maja T. Lindenmeyer, Thomas Werner, Peter J. Nelson

Affiliations Nephrology Clinic and Institute of Physiology with Center of Integrative Human Physiology, University Hospital and University, Zurich, Switzerland, Clinical Biochemistry Group, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Felix Eichinger

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Alexander Hahn

Affiliation Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

Martin Seifert

Affiliation Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

Anton G. Moll

Affiliations Nephrology Clinic and Institute of Physiology with Center of Integrative Human Physiology, University Hospital and University, Zurich, Switzerland, Clinical Biochemistry Group, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Holger Schmid

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Group, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Eva Kiss

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Elisabeth Gröne

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Hermann-Josef Gröne

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Kretzler

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Thomas Werner

Contributed equally to this work with: Clemens D. Cohen, Maja T. Lindenmeyer, Thomas Werner, Peter J. Nelson

Affiliation Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

Peter J. Nelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Clemens D. Cohen, Maja T. Lindenmeyer, Thomas Werner, Peter J. Nelson

peter.nelson@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Group, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

Thomas Werner, Anton G. Moll, Alexander Hahn and Martin Seifert work for Genomatix GmbH. The analysis method was developed in cooperation with this company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDC HJG MK TW PJN. Performed the experiments: CDC MTL FE AH MS AGM EK EG HJG TW. Analyzed the data: CDC MTL FE AH MS AGM HS EK HJG TW PJN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDC EG HJG MK. Wrote the paper: CDC MTL HJG MK TW PJN.