About the Authors

Johannes Keller

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Keller, Silja Brink

j.keller@uke.de

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Silja Brink

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Keller, Silja Brink

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Björn Busse

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Arndt F. Schilling

Current address: Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Schinke

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Amling

Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Tobias Lange

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AFS MA. Performed the experiments: SB TL BB. Analyzed the data: JK TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK AFS TL. Wrote the paper: JK TL. Data interpretation: JK TS MA TL. Statistical analysis: JK TL. Critical manuscript revision: JK TS MA TL.