About the Authors

Lucia Lopez-Anglada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmarti01@ucm.es (JML); lucia.lopezanglada@gmail.com (LLA)

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain

Cecilia Cueto-Felgueroso

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

Laura Rosiñol

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Albert Oriol

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Germans i Trials, Barcelona, Spain

Ana Isabel Teruel

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Clínico de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Ana Lopez de la Guia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Enrique Bengoechea

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital de Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain

Luis Palomera

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain

Felipe de Arriba

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain

Jose Mariano Hernandez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital General de Segovia, Segovia, Spain

Miquel Granell

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology, Hospital Univarsitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona,Spain

Francisco Javier Peñalver

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology Department, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain

Ramon Garcia-Sanz

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca-IBSAL, IBMCC-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain

Juan Besalduch

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology Department, Hospital Univarsitari Son Espases, Mallorca, Spain

Yolanda Gonzalez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology Department, Institutd’Oncologia Dr Josep Trueta de Girona, Girona, Spain

Rafael Benigno Martinez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology Department, Hospital Universitario San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Miguel Teodoro Hernandez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Haematology Department, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Norma C. Gutierrez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Paloma Puerta

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

Antonio Valeri

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain

Bruno Paiva

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Haematology Department, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra/ CIMA,IDISNA, CIBERONC,Pamplona, SPAIN

Joan Blade

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Germans i Trials, Barcelona, Spain

Maria-Victoria Mateos

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Jesus San Miguel

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Haematology Department, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra/ CIMA,IDISNA, CIBERONC,Pamplona, SPAIN

Juan Jose Lahuerta

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint co-chairs on this study.

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain

Joaquin Martinez-Lopez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmarti01@ucm.es (JML); lucia.lopezanglada@gmail.com (LLA)

‡ These authors are joint co-chairs on this study.

Affiliation Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain

on behalf of the GEM (Grupo Español de MM)/PETHEMA (Programa para el Estudio de la Terapéutica en Hemopatías Malignas) Cooperative Study Group

Membership of the GEM (Grupo Español de MM)/PETHEMA (Programa para el Estudio de la Terapéutica en Hemopatías Malignas) Cooperative Study Group^ is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.