About the Authors

Andreas Schröck

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Schröck, Friederike Göke

andreas.schroeck@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Friederike Göke

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Schröck, Friederike Göke

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Patrick Wagner

Affiliation Winchester Medical Center, Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Maike Bode

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Alina Franzen

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Martin Braun

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Sebastian Huss

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Abbas Agaimy

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Stephan Ihrler

Affiliation Laboratory for Dermatohistology and Oral Pathology; Institute of Pathology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Ropika Menon

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Robert Kirsten

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Glen Kristiansen

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Friedrich Bootz

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Claudia Lengerke

Affiliation Medical Center II, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Sven Perner

Affiliations Department of Prostate Cancer Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS FG SP. Performed the experiments: AS FG MB AF MB RM SP. Analyzed the data: RK CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH AA SI SP FB GK. Wrote the paper: AS FG PW GK FB CL SP.