Lars Bullinger, MD1, Javier Martinez Elicegui2*, Eric Sträng, PhD3*, Castellani Gastone4*, Caroline A Heckman, PhD5, Ana Heredia Casanoves6*, Jurjen Versluis7*, Moritz Gerstung, PhD8*, María Abáigar, PhD9*, Alberto Hernandez-Sanchez2*, Laura Jamilis6*, Raúl Azibeiro Melchor2*, Peter JM Valk, PhD10, Klaus H. Metzeler, MD11, Rosa Ayala, MD, PhD12*, Joaquin Martinez Lopez13*, Hervé Dombret, MD14, Pau Montesinos, MD, PhD15*, Jorge Sierra, MD16, Claude Preudomme17*, Frederik Damm, MD18*, Ken I Mills, PhD, FRCPath, BSc19, Jiri Mayer20*, Christian Thiede, MD21, Maria Teresa Voso, MD22, Sergio Amadori23, Guillermo F Sanz, MD, PhD24, Frederico Calado25*, Konstanze Dohner, MD26, Verena I Gaidzik, MD27, Michael Heuser28, Torsten Haferlach, MD29, Marta Sobas, MD PhD30*, Amin T. Turki, MD, PhD31, Dirk Reinhardt, MD32, Rubén Villoria Medina6*, Michel van Speybroeck, MSc33*, Renate Schulze-Rath, MD, MSc34*, Jesús M Hernández Rivas, MD, PhD9, Brian J. P. Huntly, PhD, MRCP, MB, FRCPath35, Hartmut Döhner27 and Gert J. Ossenkoppele, MD, PhD36
1Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
2Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
3Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4University of Bologna (UNIBO), Bologna, Italy
5Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland,, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
6GMV Innovating Solutions, Valencia, Spain
7Erasmus University Medical Center Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
8European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
9Universidad de Salamanca, IBSAL, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, IBMCC-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
10Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
11Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
12Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre,, Madrid, Spain
13Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
14Division of Hematology, EA3518 Saint-Louis Institute for Research, Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP, University of Paris, Paris, France, Paris, France
15Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario La Fe de Valencia,, Valencia, Spain, Spain
16Hematology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
17University Hospital, Lille, France
18Hematology, Oncology, and Tumorimmunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
19Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
20University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic, Brno, CZE
21Dept. of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
22Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Diagnostica per Immagini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
23Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, RM, Italy
24Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
25Novartis, Oncology Region Europe, Basel, Switzerland
26Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
27Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
28Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
29MLL Munchner Leukamie Labor Gmbh, Munchen, Germany
30Department of Hematology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
31Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, West German Cancer Center, Essen, Germany
32Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany
33Data Sciences, Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Beerse, Belgium
34Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
35Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
36Department of Hematology, Amsterdam UMC, VU University Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands