About the Authors

Dinesh Adhikary

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group, Institute for Clinical and Molecular Biology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Uta Behrends

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group, Institute for Clinical and Molecular Biology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Heike Boerschmann

Affiliation Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Andrea Pfünder

Affiliation Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Stefan Burdach

Affiliation Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Andreas Moosmann

Affiliation Clinical Cooperation Group Molecular Oncology, Department of Gene Vectors, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Klaus Witter

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Ludwig Maximilians University, München, Germany

Georg W. Bornkamm

Affiliation Clinical Cooperation Group, Institute for Clinical and Molecular Biology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

Josef Mautner

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mautner@gsf.de

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group, Institute for Clinical and Molecular Biology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, Children's Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, University of Technology, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB JM UB. Performed the experiments: DA. Analyzed the data: JM DA UB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB HB AP SB AM KW. Wrote the paper: JM DA UB.