About the Authors

Christoph Melcher

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Michael J Pankratz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michael.pankratz@itg.fzk.de

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CM and MJP conceived, designed, and performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.