Francisco Cervantes, MD¹, Brigitte Dupriez, MD^2*, Arturo Pereira, MD^3*, Francesco Passamonti, MD^4*, John T Reilly, MD^5*, Enrica Morra, MD^6*, Alessandro Vannucchi, MD^7*, Ruben A. Mesa, MD, FACP⁸, Jean-Loup Demory, MD^9*, Giovanni Barosi, MD^10*, Elisa Rumi, MD^4* and Ayalew Tefferi, MD¹¹

¹Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
²Hematology Department, Centre Hospitalier Lens, Lens, France
³Hematology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
⁴Hematology Department, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
⁵Hematology Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom
⁶Hematology Department, Universita Milano-Niguarda, Milan, Italy
⁷Hematology Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
⁸Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
⁹Hematology Department, Hopital St. Vincent De Paul, Lille, France
¹⁰Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Center for the Study of Myelofibrosis, Istituto Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
¹¹Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN

Alfonso Quintas-Cardama, MD¹, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD^2*, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD^3*, Jorge Cortes, MD⁴, Marie Ann Richie^3*, Gautam Borthakur, MD⁵ and Srdan Verstovsek⁴

¹Medical Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
²Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
³Leukemia, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁴M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁵Leukemia, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Jean-Jacques Kiladjian^1*, Sabrina Dupont^2*, Bruno Cassinat^3*, Aline Massé^2*, William Vainchenker², Christine Chomienne^4*, François Delhommeau^5* and Pierre Fenaux¹

¹Hématologie Clinique, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Avicenne; Paris 13 University, Bobigny, France
²INSERM U790, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
³Unité de Biologie Cellulaire, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁴Institut Universitaire d'Hematologie, Inserm U718, Paris, France
⁵Laboratoire d'Hématologie, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine; Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

C. Besses^*, A Álvarez-Larrán^*, L Martínez-Avilés^*, R Longarón^*, S Serrano^* and B Bellosillo^*

Hematology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Heinz Gisslinger¹, Mirjana Gotic^2*, Jerzy Holowiecki³, Miroslav Penka^4*, Juergen Thiele^5*, Hans Michael Kvasnicka^5*, Robert Kralovics⁶ and Petro E. Petrides^7*

¹Department of Hematology and Blood Coagulation, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
²Institute of Hematology, Belgrade, Serbia
³Silesian Medical University, Katowice, Poland
⁴Department of Clinical Hematology, Masaryk University Faculty Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic
⁵Insitute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
⁶Center for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
⁷Hematology Oncology Center, Munich, Germany

Alfonso Quintas-Cardama, MD¹, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD^2*, Deborah A. Thomas, MD², Jorge Cortes, MD³, Farhad Ravandi, MBBS⁴, Stefan Faderl, MD³, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD⁵, Gautam Borthakur, MD⁶, Neda Bell^7*, Catriona Byrne^7* and Srdan Verstovsek³

¹Medical Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
²Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
³M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁴Department of Leukemia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁵Leukemia, U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁶Leukemia, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁷Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ

Ayalew Tefferi, MD¹, Srdan Verstovsek², Giani Barosi^3*, Francesco Passamonti, MD^4*, Gail J. Roboz, MD⁵, Heinz Gisslinger^6*, Ronald Paquette, MD⁷, Francisco Cervantes, MD⁸, Candido E. Rivera, MD⁹, H. Joachim Deeg¹⁰, Juergen Thiele^11*, Hans Michael Kvasnicka^11*, James W. Vardiman, MD¹², B. Nebiyou Bekele, PhD^13*, Ruben A. Mesa, MD, FACP¹⁴, Robert P Gale^15* and Hagop M Kantarjian¹⁶

¹Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN
²M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
³IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
⁴Department of Hematology Oncology, University of Pavia & Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
⁵Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
⁶Department of Hematology and Blood Coagulation, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
⁷Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
⁸Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
⁹Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
¹⁰Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
¹¹Insitute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
¹²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
¹³Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
¹⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
¹⁵Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ
¹⁶The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Maria Caterina Putti, MD^1*, Fiorina Giona, MD^2*, Caterina Consarino, MD^3*, Gian Mario Fiori, MD^4*, Paola Giordano, MD^5*, Saverio Ladogana, MD^6*, Momcilo Jankovic, MD^7*, Concetta Micalizzi, MD^8*, Andrea Pession, MD, PhD⁹, Paolo Pierani, MD^10*, Ugo Ramenghi, MD¹¹, Margherita Scapin, PhD^12*, Luciana Teofili, MD^13*, Fabio Tucci, MD^14*, Katia Tettoni, MD^15*, Andrea Giulio Zanazzo^16* and Maria Luigia Randi, MD^17*

¹Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
²Division of Haematology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
³Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Az. Osp. “Pugliese-Ciaccio”
⁴Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Ospedale Regionale per le Microcitemie, Cagliari, Italy
⁵Dipartimento Età Evolutiva, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
⁶Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, San Goivanni Rotondo, Italy
⁷Pediatric Hematology, Ospedale S. Gerardo, University of Milano, Monza, Italy
⁸Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy
⁹Oncologia-Ematologia Pediatrica, Santorsola-Malpicitci, Bologna, Italy
¹⁰Children's Hospital G.Salesi, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Ancona, Italy
¹¹Pediatric Dept., University of Torino, Torino, Italy
¹²Department of Medical and Surgical Science, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
¹³Department of Haematology, Catholic University, Rome, Hungary
¹⁴Pediatric Hematology Oncology, A.O. Meyer, Firenze, Italy
¹⁵Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Pediatric Hospital, Brescia, Italy
¹⁶Istituto Burlo Garofalo, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Trieste
¹⁷University Unit, Padova, Italy