About the Authors

Igor Paron

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Paron, Sonja Berchtold

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Sonja Berchtold

Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Paron, Sonja Berchtold

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Julia Vörös

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Madhavi Shamarla

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Mert Erkan

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Heinz Höfler

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Irene Esposito

esposito@lrz.tum.de

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP SB HH IE. Performed the experiments: IP SB JV MS ME. Analyzed the data: IP SB JV MS IE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME HH IE. Wrote the paper: IP SB IE.