About the Authors

Tobias Åkerström

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Joakim Crona

Contributed equally to this work with: Joakim Crona, Alberto Delgado Verdugo

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Alberto Delgado Verdugo

Contributed equally to this work with: Joakim Crona, Alberto Delgado Verdugo

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Lee F. Starker

Affiliations Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kenko Cupisti

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Holger S. Willenberg

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfram T. Knoefel

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfgang Saeger

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Marienhospital, Hamburg, Germany

Alfred Feller

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Julian Ip

Affiliation University of Sydney, Endocrine Surgical Unit and Cancer Genetics, Hormones and Cancer Group , Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Patsy Soon

Affiliations University of Sydney, Endocrine Surgical Unit and Cancer Genetics, Hormones and Cancer Group , Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Department of Surgery, Bankstown Hospital, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Martin Anlauf

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Pier F. Alesina

Affiliation Klinik für Chirurgie und Zentrum für Minimal Invasive Chirurgie, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Kurt W. Schmid

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie und Neuropathologie Universitätsklinikum, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Myriam Decaussin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Pierre Levillain

Affiliation Pathology Department, Centre Hospitalier Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Bo Wängberg

Affiliation Sahlgrenska akademin, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Jean-Louis Peix

Affiliation Department of Endocrine Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Bruce Robinson

Affiliation University of Sydney, Endocrine Surgical Unit and Cancer Genetics, Hormones and Cancer Group , Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Jan Zedenius

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Endocrine Surgery Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Martin Bäckdahl

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Endocrine Surgery Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefano Caramuta

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

K. Alexander Iwen

Affiliation Medizinischen Klinik Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Johan Botling

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Peter Stålberg

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Jean-Louis Kraimps

Affiliation Endocrine Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Henning Dralle

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

Per Hellman

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Stan Sidhu

Affiliation University of Sydney, Endocrine Surgical Unit and Cancer Genetics, Hormones and Cancer Group , Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Gunnar Westin

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Hendrik Lehnert

Affiliation Medizinischen Klinik Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Martin K. Walz

Affiliation Klinik für Chirurgie und Zentrum für Minimal Invasive Chirurgie, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Göran Åkerström

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Tobias Carling

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Murim Choi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard P. Lifton

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Peyman Björklund

peyman.bjorklund@surgsci.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB. Performed the experiments: PB TÅ JC ADV LFS. Analyzed the data: PB TÅ JC ADV GÅ RPL GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KC HSW WTK WS AF JI PS MA PFA KWS MD PL BW JLP BR JZ MB SC KAI JB PS JLK HD PH SS GW HL MKW GÅ TC MC RPL PB. Wrote the paper: TÅ GÅ GW HSW BR MKW PB.