About the Authors

Andreas Gast

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rainer Claus

Affiliation Department of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Andreas Brandt

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Marianne Weires

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Alexander Weber

Affiliation Junior Research Group Toll-like Receptors and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Plass

Affiliation Department of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Antje Sucker

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Kari Hemminki

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Dirk Schadendorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Schadendorf, Rajiv Kumar

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Rajiv Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Schadendorf, Rajiv Kumar

r.kumar@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG KH DS RK. Performed the experiments: AG RC AS. Analyzed the data: AG JLB AB MW AW RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG CP AS KH DS RK. Wrote the paper: AG RK AW KH DS RK.