About the Authors

Irina Bonzheim

Affiliations Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Martin Irmler

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Margit Klier-Richter

Affiliations Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Julia Steinhilber

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

Nataša Anastasov

Current address: : Institute of Radiation Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Sabine Schäfer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

Patrick Adam

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

Johannes Beckers

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Chair of Experimental Genetics, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Mark Raffeld

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Falko Fend

Affiliation Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez

Leticia.Quintanilla-Fend@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQM IB. Performed the experiments: IB MI JB SS JS MKR NA. Analyzed the data: LQM IB MR FF MI JB. Wrote the paper: LQM IB. Contributed to the classification and revision of the primary cases: PA.