About the Authors

Kerstin U. Ludwig

kerstin.ludwig@uni-bonn.de (KUL); heiko.peters@ncl.ac.uk (HP)

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Syeda Tasnim Ahmed

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Anne C. Böhmer

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Nasim Bahram Sangani

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sheryil Varghese

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Johanna Klamt

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Hannah Schuenke

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Pinar Gültepe

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Andrea Hofmann

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Genomics, Life&Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Michele Rubini

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy

Khalid Ahmed Aldhorae

Affiliation Orthodontic Department, College of Dentistry, Thamar University, Thamar, Yemen

Regine P. Steegers-Theunissen

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Augusto Rojas-Martinez

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, and Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico

Rudolf Reiter

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Guntram Borck

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Michael Knapp

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Mitsushiro Nakatomi

Affiliation Division of Anatomy, Kyushu Dental University, Kitakyushu, Japan

Daniel Graf

Affiliations Orofacial Development and Regeneration, Institute of Oral Biology, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Departments of Dentistry and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Elisabeth Mangold

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Heiko Peters

kerstin.ludwig@uni-bonn.de (KUL); heiko.peters@ncl.ac.uk (HP)

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KUL DG EM HP. Performed the experiments: KUL STA ACB NBS SV JK HS PG MN DG HP. Analyzed the data: KUL AH MK DG EM HP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR KAA RPST ARM RR GB EM. Wrote the paper: KUL HP.