About the Authors

Ann-Kathrin Ernst

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann-Kathrin Ernst, Annika Putscher

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Annika Putscher

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann-Kathrin Ernst, Annika Putscher

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Timur R. Samatov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SRC Bioclinicum, Moscow, Russia, Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering, Moscow, Russia

Anna Suling

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Vladimir V. Galatenko

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SRC Bioclinicum, Moscow, Russia, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Maxim Yu Shkurnikov

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation SRC Bioclinicum, Moscow, Russia

Evgeny N. Knyazev

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SRC Bioclinicum, Moscow, Russia

Alexander G. Tonevitsky

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Department of Translational Oncology, National Center of Medical Radiological Research, Obninsk, Russia

Thomas Haalck

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Outpatient Center, Department of Dermatology, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Tobias Lange

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hanna Maar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jennifer Schröder- Schwarz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Kristoffer Riecken

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department Cell and Gene Therapy, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Udo Schumacher

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Daniel Wicklein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

d.wicklein@uke.de

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Cancer Center, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

Some of the authors were in part employed by SRC Bioclinicum, Moskow. SRC Bioclinicum, Moscow” provided support in the form of (part of) salaries for authors T.S., V.G., M.S. and E.K., but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare no further competing financial interests.