About the Authors

Sylvia Borchers

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Borchers, Melanie Bremm

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Melanie Bremm

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Borchers, Melanie Bremm

melanie.bremm@kgu.de (MB); koehl.ulrike@mh-hannover.de (UK)

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Thomas Lehrnbecher

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Elke Dammann

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Brigitte Pabst

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Benno Wölk

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ruth Esser

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Meral Yildiz

Affiliations Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, Internal Medicine II, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Matthias Eder

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Michael Stadler

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Peter Bader

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Hans Martin

Affiliation Internal Medicine II, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Andrea Jarisch

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Gisbert Schneider

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Biostatistics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Thomas Klingebiel

Affiliation Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Arnold Ganser

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Eva M. Weissinger

These authors are joint senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ulrike Koehl

melanie.bremm@kgu.de (MB); koehl.ulrike@mh-hannover.de (UK)

These authors are joint senior authors.

Affiliations Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MB EMW UK. Performed the experiments: SB MB MY. Analyzed the data: SB MB UK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB MB TL PB EMW UK. Wrote the paper: SB MB EMW UK. Performed data base queries: ED BW RE. Revised the manuscript: TL AJ RE GS. Contributed to statistical analysis: SB MB BW GS EMW UK. Provided clinical data: ED BP AJ HM MS ME. Responsible for patient enrollment: AG TK.