We thank Hildegard Jakobi (prospective tumor database, Department of Urology, University of Heidelberg) and Karl-Heinz Ellsässer (Centre for Information and Medical Technology, University of Heidelberg) for excellent help with the patient data and Barbara Schreiber and Bettina Walter for expert technical assistance.
The authors thank nurses Sonja Odeblom and Anne-Cathrin Kallin at the Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden, for excellent help with collection of patient data.
We thank Ms Gun-Britt Johansson at the Department for Rheumatology, University Hospital, Umeå, for excellent help with collection of patient data and Marie Eriksson, PhD, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Umeå, for valuable statistical discussions.
The authors thank Dr Antje Braun at the Department of Rheumatology, Sunderby Hospital, Luleå and nurses Sonja Odeblom and Anne-Cathrin Kallin at the Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Umeå, for excellent help with collection of patient data.
We thank M. Kredler and E. Ossipova for excellent help with the rearing of Daphnia and Triops.
Despite immersion in the manual and the aid of Casio's excellent help line, much of the satellite information was (forgive me) way over my head.
We gratefully thank the stuff of Moscow Zoo Russiaa) for their excellent help in organization of data collecting and comments on the planning of the study, special gratitude we express to Olga Ilchenko, Galina Vakhrusheva, Lidia Kondratyeva.
I couldn't have done it without the excellent help of the install crew at PS1.
Sequencing in this work was done with the excellent help of technicians Wolfgang Fischer and Márcio M. Yamamoto.
We also want to thank Michael Fero and the Stanford Functional Genomics Facility (SFGF) who manufactured the cDNA microarrays used in this study, and Janos Demeter and the other members of the Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) for their excellent help and advice.
