Nattenmüller, Cina J.
Kriegsmann, Mark
Sookthai, Disorn
Fortner, Renée Turzanski
Steffen, Annika
Walter, Britta
Johnson, Theron
Kneisel, Jutta
Katzke, Verena
Bergmann, Manuela
Sinn, Hans Peter
Schirmacher, Peter
Herpel, Esther
Boeing, Heiner
Kaaks, Rudolf
Kühn, Tilman http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7702-317X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01ER0809, 01ER0809, 01ER0808)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2017
Accepted: 23 May 2018
First Online: 31 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants gave written informed consent and the study was approved by the responsible ethics committees at both study centers (Potsdam: Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of the State of Brandenburg; Heidelberg: Ethics Committee of the Heidelberg University Hospital) [CitationRef removed]. Tissue samples were provided by the tissue bank of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT, Heidelberg, Germany) in accordance with the regulations of the tissue bank and the approval of the ethics committee of the Heidelberg University Hospital.
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