About the Authors

Volkhard Seitz

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Peter Butzhammer

Affiliation Institute for Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Burkhard Hirsch

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Jochen Hecht

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité - University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Ines Gütgemann

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

Anke Ehlers

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Dido Lenze

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Elisabeth Oker

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Anke Sommerfeld

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Edda von der Wall

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Christoph König

Affiliation imaGenes GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Christian Zinser

Affiliation Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

Rainer Spang

Affiliation Institute for Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Michael Hummel

michael.hummel@charite.de

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

CK is employed by imaGenes GmbH, and CZ is employed by Genomatix Software GmbH. 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: VS PB BH JH IG AE DL CK CZ RS MH. Performed the experiments: VS BH JH EO AS EV CK. Analyzed the data: VS PB BH JH IG AE DL EO AS EV CK CZ RS MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH PB CK CZ. Wrote the paper: VS PB BH JH IG AE DL EO AS EV CK CZ RS MH.