Vulinovic, Franca
Hach, Arian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-2391
Landoulsi, Zied
Tanzer, Kerstin
Alvarez-Fischer, Daniel
Seibler, Philip
Klein, Christine
May, Patrick https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8698-3770
Rakovic, Aleksandar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-7911
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR2844)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR2844)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR2844)
Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR/DFG 11250962)
Article History
Received: 29 May 2024
Revised: 27 April 2026
Accepted: 21 May 2026
First Online: 5 June 2026
Competing interests
: CK has served as a medical advisor to Centogene, Biogene, and Bial and has received speakers’ honoraria from Bial and royalties from Oxford University Press and Springer Nature. The authors declare no competing interests.
: All experimental procedures were conducted in accordance with relevant institutional guidelines and regulations. All procedures involving human participants were conducted in accordance with institutional ethical standards and the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Lübeck (04-155 and 05-030). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to tissue collection.