About the Authors

Gregor Gorkiewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregor Gorkiewicz, Gerhard G. Thallinger

gregor.gorkiewicz@medunigraz.at (GG); christoph.hoegenauer@medunigraz.at (CH)

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Gerhard G. Thallinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregor Gorkiewicz, Gerhard G. Thallinger

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Slave Trajanoski

Affiliation Center for Medical Research, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Stefan Lackner

Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, Center for Medical Research, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Gernot Stocker

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Thomas Hinterleitner

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Christian Gülly

Affiliation Center for Medical Research, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Christoph Högenauer

gregor.gorkiewicz@medunigraz.at (GG); christoph.hoegenauer@medunigraz.at (CH)

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG TH CH. Performed the experiments: GG TH CH CG ST. Analyzed the data: GGT GG GS SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG GGT CH CG ST. Wrote the paper: GG GGT CH.