About the Authors
- Amaya Viros
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jane Fridlyand
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Affiliations University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Juergen Bauer
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Konstantin Lasithiotakis
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Claus Garbe
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Daniel Pinkel
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Affiliations University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Boris C Bastian
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bastian@cc.ucsf.edu
Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
AV performed the quantitation of the microscopic features and was involved in the project design, statistical analysis, and writing of the manuscript. JF is responsible for the statistical analysis. JB performed sequencing of BRAF and NRAS in a subset of the samples and was involved in scoring of microscopic features of a subset of the samples. KL and CG performed the statistical analysis of the Southern German Tumor Registry cohort. DP participated in the design of the study and the writing of the manuscript. BCB oversaw the entire project and was involved in the overall project design, data analysis, and writing of the manuscript.