About the Authors

Ana Henriques

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Henriques, Arancha Rodríguez-Caballero

Affiliations Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain, Blood and Transplantation Center of Coimbra/Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, IP, Coimbra, Portugal

Arancha Rodríguez-Caballero

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Henriques, Arancha Rodríguez-Caballero

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Wendy G. Nieto

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Anton W. Langerak

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ignacio Criado

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Quentin Lécrevisse

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Marcos González

Affiliation Service of Hematology, University Hospital of Salamanca, IBMCC, IBSAL and Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Maria L. Pais

Affiliation Blood and Transplantation Center of Coimbra/Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, IP, Coimbra, Portugal

Artur Paiva

Affiliation Blood and Transplantation Center of Coimbra/Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, IP, Coimbra, Portugal

Julia Almeida

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Alberto Orfao

orfao@usal.es

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Cytometry Service, University of Salamanca (USAL) and Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AO JA AH ARC. Performed the experiments: AH ARC WGN IC. Analyzed the data: AH ARC AWL MG WGN JA AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AWL QL MLP AP. Wrote the paper: AH ARC AO JA. Provided patient samples and clinical data: MG MLP. Retrieved relevant clinical information from patient records: AP. Provided resources: AP.