About the Authors

Annika Fendler

Annika.Schaefer@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité – University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Monika Jung

Affiliation Department of Urology, Charité – University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Carsten Stephan

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité – University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Erbersdobler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Klaus Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Jung, George M. Yousef

Affiliations Department of Urology, Charité – University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Urologic Research, Berlin, Germany

George M. Yousef

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Jung, George M. Yousef

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, and the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF KJ GMY. Performed the experiments: AF MJ. Analyzed the data: AF AE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS AE. Wrote the manuscript: AF KJ.