About the Authors
- Maciej Giefing
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Giefing, Supandi Winoto-Morbach
* E-mail: 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
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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
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Claudia Döring
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Affiliation Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, University of Frankfurt, Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany
- Wolfram Klapper
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, Kiel, Germany
- Ralf Küppers
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Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Medicine, Essen, Germany
- Sebastian Böttcher
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Affiliation Second Department of Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Dieter Adam
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Reiner Siebert
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Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Stefan Schütze
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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.