About the Authors

Jürgen Glas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Human Genetics, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

Julia Seiderer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer

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

Christoph Fries

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Cornelia Tillack

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

Simone Pfennig

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

Maria Weidinger

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

Florian Beigel

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

Torsten Olszak

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ulrich Lass

Affiliation TIB MOLBIOL Syntheselabor GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Burkhard Göke

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

Thomas Ochsenkühn

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

Christiane Wolf

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Peter Lohse

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Julia Diegelmann

Affiliations Department of Medicine II - Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Preventive Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Darina Czamara

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Stephan Brand

stephan.brand@med.uni-muenchen.de

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

Competing Interests

U. Lass is an employee of TIB MOLBIOL Syntheselabor GmbH, which is marketing FRET probes for genotyping. However, TIB MOLBIOL Syntheselabor GmbH had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The employment of U. Lass by TIB MOLBIOL Syntheselabor GmbH does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG JD SB. Performed the experiments: JG CF JD. Analyzed the data: JG SP CW BM-M JD DC SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG JS CF CT SP MW FB TOlszak UL BG TOchsenkühn CW PL BM-M JD DC SB. Wrote the paper: JS JG DC JD SB. Organized the collaboration between the research institutions: SB.