About the Authors

Francesco Abate

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Abate, Maria Raffaella Ambrosio

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria Raffaella Ambrosio

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Abate, Maria Raffaella Ambrosio

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Lucia Mundo

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Maria Antonella Laginestra

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Fabio Fuligni

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Maura Rossi

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Sakellarios Zairis

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Sara Gazaneo

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Giulia De Falco

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Stefano Lazzi

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Cristiana Bellan

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Bruno Jim Rocca

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Teresa Amato

Affiliation Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Elena Marasco

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Maryam Etebari

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Martin Ogwang

Affiliation Lacor Hospital, Gulu, Uganda

Valeria Calbi

Affiliation Lacor Hospital, Gulu, Uganda

Isaac Ndede

Affiliation Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

Kirtika Patel

Affiliation Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

David Chumba

Affiliation Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

Pier Paolo Piccaluga

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Stefano Pileri

stefano.pileri@unibo.it, stefano.pileri@ieo.it (SP); lorenzo.leoncini@dbm.unisi.it (LL); rr2579@cumc.columbia.edu (RR)

Affiliations Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy, Unit of Haematopathology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan and Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Lorenzo Leoncini

stefano.pileri@unibo.it, stefano.pileri@ieo.it (SP); lorenzo.leoncini@dbm.unisi.it (LL); rr2579@cumc.columbia.edu (RR)

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Pathology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna, Italy

Raul Rabadan

stefano.pileri@unibo.it, stefano.pileri@ieo.it (SP); lorenzo.leoncini@dbm.unisi.it (LL); rr2579@cumc.columbia.edu (RR)

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA RR SZ LL SP PPP. Performed the experiments: LM MRA SG GDF CB TA SL BJR ME. Analyzed the data: FA SZ RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP LL. Wrote the paper: FA RR LL SP SZ. Contributed clinical samples: MO VC IN KP DC. Analyzed Sequenom data: PPP MAL MR FF EM.