Keppens, Cleo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-8386
Boone, Elke
Gameiro, Paula http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3761-7050
Tack, Véronique http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8464-9541
Moreau, Elisabeth
Hodges, Elizabeth
Evans, Paul http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7915-0946
Brüggemann, Monika
Carter, Ian
Lenze, Dido
Sarasquete, Maria Eugenia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7335-3657
Möbs, Markus http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-3032
Liu, Hongxiang
Dequeker, Elisabeth M. C.
Groenen, Patricia J. T. A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-228X
Funding for this research was provided by:
EuroClonality Foundation (N/A)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2020
Revised: 18 November 2020
Accepted: 28 January 2021
First Online: 8 March 2021
Declarations
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: Virchows Archiv conforms to the ICMJE recommendation for qualification of authorship. The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:▪ Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and▪ Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and▪ Final approval of the version to be published; and▪ Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.All individuals listed as co-authors of the manuscript must qualify for every one of the four criteria listed above. Should an individual’s contributions to the manuscript meet three of the criteria or fewer, then they should not be listed as a co-author on the manuscript; instead, their contributions should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section of the manuscript.The samples originated from leftover patient materials obtained during routine care. Each scheme organizer signed a subcontractor agreement stating that the way in which the samples were obtained conformed to the national legal requirements for the use of patient samples. The samples were excluded from research regulations requiring informed consent.
: EuroClonality is a scientific foundation that, together with the foundations EuroMRD and EuroFlow, is connected to the ESLHO foundation/EHA scientific working group. The objectives of the EuroClonality Foundation are aimed at innovation, standardization, quality control, and education in the field of diagnostic clonality analysis. The revenues of the previously obtained patent (PCT/NL2003/000690), which is collectively owned by the EuroClonality Foundation and licensed to Invivoscribe, are exclusively used for EuroClonality activities, such as for covering costs of the Working Group meetings, collective WorkPackages (including the WorkPackage: External Quality Control, EQA), and the EuroClonality Educational Workshops.- Cleo Keppens has nothing to declare.- Elke Boone is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2014–now).- Paula Gameiro is a member of the Board of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation, and chair of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2014–now).- Véronique Tack has nothing to declare.- Elisabeth Moreau is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2015–2018).- Elizabeth Hodges is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2014–now).- Paul Evans is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2017–now), and has received honoraria and lecture fees from Novartis, Diceutics, and Astellas within the past 36 months, outside the scope of this research.- Monika Brüggemann is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2014–2016), performed contract research for Affimed, Amgen, Regeneron, advisory board of Amgen, Incyte, and is a speaker for the bureau of Janssen, Pfizer, Roche.- Ian Carter is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2017–2018).- Dido Lenze is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2015–2017).- Maria Eugenia Sarasquete is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (2019–now).- Markus Möbs is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (2019–now).- Hongxiang Liu is a member of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2017–now).- Elisabeth MC Dequeker has nothing to declare.- Patricia JTA Groenen is chair of the EuroClonality Scientific Foundation and member of the WorkPackage EQA (assessor 2014–now).