About the Authors

Hasmik Mkrtchyan

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Madeleine Gross

Current address: Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Sophie Hinreiner

Current address: Institute of Functional Genomics, Regensburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Anna Polytiko

Affiliation National Medical Center “Mother and Child”, Minsk, Belarus

Marina Manvelyan

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Cytology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Kristin Mrasek

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Nadezda Kosyakova

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Elisabeth Ewers

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Heike Nelle

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Thomas Liehr

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Marianne Volleth

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Magdeburg, Germany

Anja Weise

aweise@mti.uni-jena.de

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM MG AP AW. Performed the experiments: HM MG SH AP KM NK HN. Analyzed the data: HM SH AP MM NK EE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM HN TL MV. Wrote the paper: TL AW.