Helen Parker1*, Amatta Mirandari1*, Carolina Jaramillo-Oquendo2*, Marti Duran-Ferrer3*, Ben Stevens1*, Lara Buermann1*, Harindra Eranthi Amarasinghe, PhD1,4*, Jaya Thomas1*, Louise J. Carr, MSc1*, Shama Syeda1*, Methusha Sakthipakan1*, Marina Parry1*, Zadie Davies5*, Neil McIver-Brown5*, Aliki Xochelli, MD6*, Sarah Ennis2*, Lydia Scarfo, MD7, Paolo Ghia, MD, PhD8, Christina H. Kalpadakis, MD9*, Gerassimos Pangalis, MD10*, Davide Rossi11, Simon Wagner12*, Matthew Ahearne12*, Marc Seifert13*, Christoph Plass14*, Dieter Weichenhan14*, Eva Kimby15*, Lesley Ann Sutton, PhD, BSc16*, Richard Rosenquist, MD17, Francesco Forconi1*, Kostas Stamatopoulos6*, Marta Salido, PhD18*, Ana Ferrer, MD, PhD19*, Catherine Thieblemont, MD20*, David Graham Oscier, MD, PhD21, Renata Walewska22*, Matthew JJ Rose-Zerilli1*, Jane Gibson, PhD1*, Iñaki I. Martin Subero, PhD3,23*, Christopher C. Oakes, PhD24, Dean J. Bryant, PhD1* and Jonathan C. Strefford, BSc25
1School of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2Genomic Informatics, Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
3Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
4Radcliffe Department of Investigative Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
5Department of Molecular Pathology, University Hospitals Dorset, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
6Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
7Laboratory of B-cell Neoplasia, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
8Unit of B Cell Neoplasia and Strategic Research Program on CLL, Università Vita-Salute and IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
9University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, GRC
10Department of Haematology, Athens Medical Center, Athens, GRC
11Clinic of Hematology, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland
12Leicester Cancer Research Centre, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom
13Institut fur zellbiologie, Universitatsklinikum Essen, Essen, DEU
14Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
15Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine at Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
16Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
17Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
18Laboratori de Citogenètica, Servei de Patologia, Hospital del Mar, GRETNHE, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
19Laboratori de Citologia Hematològica, Servei de Patologia, Hospital del Mar, GRETNHE, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
20Service d'hémato-oncologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
21Division of Haematology, University Hospitals Dorset, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
22Department of Haematology, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
23Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
24Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
25School of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom