About the Authors

Maciej Giefing

Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Giefing, Supandi Winoto-Morbach

giefingm@man.poznan.pl

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Supandi Winoto-Morbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Giefing, Supandi Winoto-Morbach

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Justyna Sosna

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Claudia Döring

Affiliation Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, University of Frankfurt, Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany

Wolfram Klapper

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, Kiel, Germany

Ralf Küppers

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Medicine, Essen, Germany

Sebastian Böttcher

Affiliation Second Department of Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Dieter Adam

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Reiner Siebert

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Stefan Schütze

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Reiner Siebert obtained lecture fees to himself and research support to the Institute from Abbott. 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: RS SS. Performed the experiments: MG SWM JS WK CD SB DA. Analyzed the data: MG SWM JS WK CD SB DA. Wrote the manuscript: MG SWM RS SS. Collected and characterized samples: WK. Provided gene expression data and revised the manuscript: RK.