About the Authors

Erik Maronde

Contributed equally to this work with: Erik Maronde, Arndt F. Schilling

E.Maronde@em.uni-frankfurt.de (EM); urs.albrecht@unifr.ch (UA)

Affiliation Dr. Senckenbergische Anatomie, Institute for Anatomy III, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Arndt F. Schilling

Contributed equally to this work with: Erik Maronde, Arndt F. Schilling

Current address: Biomechanics Section, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Sebastian Seitz

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Schinke

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Isabelle Schmutz

Affiliation Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Gijsbertus van der Horst

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Michael Amling

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Urs Albrecht

E.Maronde@em.uni-frankfurt.de (EM); urs.albrecht@unifr.ch (UA)

Affiliation Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM AFS TS MA UA. Performed the experiments: EM AFS SS IS. Analyzed the data: EM AFS SS TS MA UA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS GvdH. Wrote the paper: EM UA.