About the Authors

Friederike Pastore

Friederike.Pastore@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperative Group Pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Philipp A. Greif

Affiliations Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperative Group Pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Stephanie Schneider

Affiliation Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Bianka Ksienzyk

Affiliation Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Gudrun Mellert

Affiliation Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Evelyn Zellmeier

Affiliation Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Jan Braess

Affiliation Dept. of Oncology and Hematology, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Germany

Cristina M. Sauerland

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Achim Heinecke

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Utz Krug

Affiliation Dept. of Internal Medicine A, Hematology and Oncology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Wolfgang E. Berdel

Affiliation Dept. of Internal Medicine A, Hematology and Oncology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Thomas Buechner

Affiliation Dept. of Internal Medicine A, Hematology and Oncology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Bernhard Woermann

Affiliation German Society of Hematology and Oncology, Berlin, Germany

Wolfgang Hiddemann

Affiliations Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperative Group Pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Karsten Spiekermann

Affiliations Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperative Group Pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP KS PAG WH. Wrote the paper: FP PAG SS BK GM EZ JB CMS AH UK WEB TB BW WH KS. Collection and assembly of data: FP SS BK GM EZ JB CMS AH UK WEB TB BW WH KS. Data analysis and interpretation: FP KS PAG WH. Final approval of manuscript: FP PAG SS BK GM EZ JB CMS AH UK WEB TB BW WH KS.