About the Authors
- Jörg Waldhaus
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Current address: Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular & Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hearing Research Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Jelka Cimerman
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Current address: Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Molecular & Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hearing Research Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Henning Gohlke
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Affiliation SEQUENOM GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
- Mathias Ehrich
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Affiliation SEQUENOM Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Marcus Müller
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hearing Research Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Hubert Löwenheim
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* E-mail: hubert.loewenheim@uni-tuebingen.de
Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hearing Research Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Germany
Competing Interests
HG and ME are employees of SEQUENOM GmbH and SEQUENOM, Inc., respectively. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JW HL. Performed the experiments: JW JC HG. Analyzed the data: JW JC HG MM ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM. Wrote the paper: JW HL.