About the Authors

Evelyn Zeindl-Eberhart

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Zeindl-Eberhart, Lydia Brandl

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Lydia Brandl

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Zeindl-Eberhart, Lydia Brandl

lydia.kriegl@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Sibylle Liebmann

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Steffen Ormanns

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Silvio K. Scheel

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Brabletz

Affiliation Department of Visceral Surgery, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Kirchner

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Andreas Jung

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LB EZE TK AJ. Performed the experiments: EZE LB SL SO SKS TB. Analyzed the data: EZE LB TK AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB TK AJ. Wrote the paper: EZE LN TK AJ.