About the Authors

Seval Türkmen

Contributed equally to this work with: Seval Türkmen, Gao Guo

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gao Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Seval Türkmen, Gao Guo

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Masoud Garshasbi

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Genetics Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Katrin Hoffmann

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Amjad J. Alshalah

Affiliation University of Babylon, Babylon, Iraq

Claudia Mischung

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Kuss

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Nicholas Humphrey

Affiliation Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom

Stefan Mundlos

Affiliations Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany

Peter N. Robinson

peter.robinson@charite.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST GG NH SM PNR. Performed the experiments: GG MG CM. Analyzed the data: ST GG MG KH AK PNR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJA NH. Wrote the paper: ST GG PNR.