About the Authors

Ana-Maria Buga

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana-Maria Buga, Claus Jürgen Scholz

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine, Rostock, Germany, Department of Functional Sciences, University of Medicine, Craiova, Romania

Claus Jürgen Scholz

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana-Maria Buga, Claus Jürgen Scholz

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, Lab for Microarray Applications, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Senthil Kumar

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

James G. Herndon

Affiliation Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dragos Alexandru

Affiliation Department of Functional Sciences, University of Medicine, Craiova, Romania

Gabriel Radu Cojocaru

Affiliation Department of Functional Sciences, University of Medicine, Craiova, Romania

Thomas Dandekar

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany

Aurel Popa-Wagner

aurel.popa-wagner@med.uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APW AMB. Performed the experiments: AMB CS SK. Analyzed the data: APW AMB CS SK DA GRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APW CS TD. Wrote the paper: APW AMB CS TD JH.