About the Authors

Maciej Geremek

macgerem@gmail.com

Affiliations International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland, Genetics Department, University Medical Centre Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Complex Genetics Group, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Ewa Ziętkiewicz

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Institute of Human Genetics, Poznan, Poland

Marcel Bruinenberg

Affiliation Genetics Department, University Medical Centre Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Lude Franke

Affiliation Genetics Department, University Medical Centre Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Andrzej Pogorzelski

Affiliation Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Rabka, Poland

Cisca Wijmenga

Contributed equally to this work with: Cisca Wijmenga, Michał Witt

Affiliations Genetics Department, University Medical Centre Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Complex Genetics Group, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Michał Witt

Contributed equally to this work with: Cisca Wijmenga, Michał Witt

Affiliations International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Institute of Human Genetics, Poznan, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG CW MW. Performed the experiments: MG MB. Analyzed the data: MG LF EZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the paper: MG EZ.