About the Authors

Sanna Siltanen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanna Siltanen, Tiina Wahlfors

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Tiina Wahlfors

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanna Siltanen, Tiina Wahlfors

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Martin Schindler

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Outi R. Saramäki

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

John Patrick Mpindi

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Leena Latonen

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Robert L. Vessella

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Puget Sound VA Medical System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Teuvo L. J. Tammela

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Olli Kallioniemi

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Tapio Visakorpi

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technology/BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Johanna Schleutker

Johanna.Schleutker@utu.fi

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TW JPM LL TV JS. Performed the experiments: SS TW ORS JPM LL. Analyzed the data: SS TW MS LL ORS JPM OK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS RLV TLJT TV OK. Wrote the paper: SS TW TV JS.