About the Authors

Malte Lenders

Contributed equally to this work with: Malte Lenders, Thomas Duning

Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Thomas Duning

Contributed equally to this work with: Malte Lenders, Thomas Duning

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Michael Schelleckes

Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Boris Schmitz

Affiliations Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Institute for Sports Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Sonja Stander

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Arndt Rolfs

Affiliation Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Stefan-Martin Brand

Affiliation Institute for Sports Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Eva Brand

Eva.Brand@ukmuenster.de

Affiliation Internal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

AR, EB and TD have received speaker fees and research support from both Shire HGT and Genzyme Corporation. This also does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML TD SMB EB. Performed the experiments: ML TD MS SS AR EB. Analyzed the data: ML TD BS SS SMB EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD SS AR SMB EB. Wrote the paper: ML TD BS SMB EB.