About the Authors

Sylvia Hartmann

s.hartmann@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Claudia Döring

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Christina Jakobus

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Benjamin Rengstl

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Sebastian Newrzela

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thomas Tousseyn

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospitals K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Xavier Sagaert

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospitals K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Maurilio Ponzoni

Affiliation Unit of lymphoid malignancies, Department of Pathology, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Fabio Facchetti

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Chris de Wolf-Peeters

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospitals K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Christian Steidl

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Randy Gascoyne

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Ralf Küppers

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Martin-Leo Hansmann

Affiliation Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH MP FF CWP CS RG RK MLH. Performed the experiments: SH CD CJ BR SN TT XS. Analyzed the data: SH CD BR SN RK MLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT XS FF MP CS RG. Wrote the paper: SH BR SN RK MLH.