About the Authors

Dominik M. Wittmann

Affiliations Computational Modeling in Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany, Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Florian Blöchl

Affiliation Computational Modeling in Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Dietrich Trümbach

Affiliations Molecular Neurogenetics, Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Technische Universität München, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Wolfgang Wurst

Affiliations Molecular Neurogenetics, Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Technische Universität München, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Nilima Prakash

Affiliation Molecular Neurogenetics, Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Technische Universität München, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

Fabian J. Theis

fabian.theis@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliations Computational Modeling in Biology, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany, Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NP. Performed the experiments: NP. Analyzed the data: NP. Wrote the paper: DMW. Conceived and designed the methodology: DMW FB. Performed the computational experiments: DMW. Curated and implemented the IDGenes database: DT. Helped to draft the manuscript: FB WW FJT. Contributed to the manuscript: DT NP. Coordinated the experimental work: WW. Coordinated the theoretical work: FJT.