About the Authors

Angela Garding

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela Garding, Nupur Bhattacharya

Affiliations Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, Signalling to Chromatin Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Nupur Bhattacharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela Garding, Nupur Bhattacharya

Current address: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Rainer Claus

Current address: Division Hematology/Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Affiliation Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Melanie Ruppel

Affiliations Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Cordula Tschuch

Current address: Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Germany

Affiliations Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Katharina Filarsky

Affiliation Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Irina Idler

Affiliation Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Manuela Zucknick

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Maïwen Caudron-Herger

Affiliation Research Group Genome Function and Organization, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ and BioQuant, Heidelberg, Germany

Christopher Oakes

Affiliation Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Verena Fleig

Current address: Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umea University, Sweden

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Ioanna Keklikoglou

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Danilo Allegra

Affiliation Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Leticia Serra

Affiliations Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Sudhir Thakurela

Affiliation Signalling to Chromatin Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Vijay Tiwari

Affiliation Signalling to Chromatin Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Dieter Weichenhan

Affiliation Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Axel Benner

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Bernhard Radlwimmer

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Hanswalter Zentgraf

Affiliation Division of Monoclonal Antibodies, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Wiemann

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Karsten Rippe

Affiliation Research Group Genome Function and Organization, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ and BioQuant, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Plass

Affiliation Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Hartmut Döhner

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine III, University Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Peter Lichter

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephan Stilgenbauer

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine III, University Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Daniel Mertens

daniel.mertens@uniklinik-ulm.de

Affiliations Cooperation Unit “Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis,” University Ulm, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Internal Medicine III, University Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG NB MR CT IK DW II PL SS DM VT. Performed the experiments: AG NB RC MR CT CO VF DA MC-H KF IK LS. Analyzed the data: AG NB RC MR CT MZ CO VF DA MC-H KF IK LS AB BR SW KR DM ST VT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW HZ CP HD SS VT. Wrote the paper: AG NB RC KF BR SW KR CP HD PL SS DM.