About the Authors

Steffen Dietz

Contributed equally to this work with: Steffen Dietz, Uwe Schirmer

Affiliations Cancer Genome Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Uwe Schirmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Steffen Dietz, Uwe Schirmer

Affiliations Cancer Genome Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Clémentine Mercé

Affiliations Cancer Genome Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Nikolas von Bubnoff

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Edgar Dahl

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Group, Institute of Pathology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Michael Meister

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Muley

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Thomas

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Oncology, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Holger Sültmann

h.sueltmann@dkfz.de

Affiliations Cancer Genome Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD NvB ED US HS. Performed the experiments: SD US. Analyzed the data: CM SD US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM NvB ED MM MT. Wrote the paper: SD HS.