About the Authors

Jasmina Makarević

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jochen Rutz

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eva Juengel

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Silke Kaulfuss

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Michael Reiter

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Igor Tsaur

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Georg Bartsch

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Axel Haferkamp

AH and RAB are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Roman A. Blaheta

Blaheta@em.uni-frankfurt.de

AH and RAB are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAB AH. Performed the experiments: JM JR EJ SK MR. Analyzed the data: RAB IT GB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AH RAB JM.