About the Authors

Anna Pakula

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Franz-Volhard Center for Clinical Research, Berlin, Germany

Joanna Schneider

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Muscle Research Unit, Berlin, Germany

Jürgen Janke

Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Berlin, Germany

Ute Zacharias

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Muscle Research Unit, Berlin, Germany

Herbert Schulz

Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Experimental Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Hübner

Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Experimental Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases, Berlin, Germany

Anja Mähler

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Franz-Volhard Center for Clinical Research, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Spuler

Affiliation Klinik für Neurochirurgie, HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany

Simone Spuler

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Muscle Research Unit, Berlin, Germany

Pierre Carlier

Affiliation Institut de Myologie, AIM-CEA NMR Laboratory, Institute of Myology, Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital, Paris, France

Michael Boschmann

michael.boschmann@charite.de

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint co-operation of Charité University Medicine and Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Franz-Volhard Center for Clinical Research, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP MB SS AM JJ UZ AS PC. Performed the experiments: AP HS JS UZ NH. Analyzed the data: AP HS NH JJ MB AM JS PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS MB AS HS NH UZ PC. Wrote the paper: AP MB SS AM JJ HS JS PC. Taking biopsies: AS.