About the Authors

Kinga Tóth

drtothkinga@yahoo.com

Affiliation 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Ferenc Sipos

Affiliation 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Alexandra Kalmár

Affiliation 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Árpád V. Patai

Affiliation 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Barnabás Wichmann

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Research Unit, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Robert Stoehr

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlagen, Germany

Henriette Golcher

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlagen, Germany

Vera Schellerer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlagen, Germany

Zsolt Tulassay

Affiliations 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Molecular Medicine Research Unit, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Béla Molnár

Affiliations 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Molecular Medicine Research Unit, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

This study was supported by Epigenomics AG (Berlin, Germany). The sponsor has partially supplied the reagents for the study, performed technical training and support. The authors declare that they are not employed and not consultants at the funder. The authors have no share in patents, products in development or marketed products. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM ZST. Performed the experiments: KT FS AK ÁVP. Analyzed the data: KT BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS BM ZST RS HG VS. Wrote the paper: KT FS HG BM.