About the Authors

Otmar Elsaeßer

Contributed equally to this work with: Otmar Elsaeßer, Ulrike Leiter

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Ulrike Leiter

Contributed equally to this work with: Otmar Elsaeßer, Ulrike Leiter

ulrike.leiter@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Petra G. Buettner

Affiliation Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Thomas K. Eigentler

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Friedegund Meier

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Benjamin Weide

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Gisela Metzler

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Helmut Breuninger

Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Claus Garbe

Affiliations Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, and Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UL CG. Performed the experiments: OE UL PB CG. Analyzed the data: OE UL PB CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TE FM BW GM HB UL. Wrote the paper: OE UL PB CG.