About the Authors

Guido Moll

guido.moll@ki.se

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Annika Hult

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Lena von Bahr

Affiliations Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Jessica J. Alm

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Nina Heldring

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Osama A. Hamad

Affiliation Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Lillemor Stenbeck-Funke

Affiliation Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Stella Larsson

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Yuji Teramura

Affiliation Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Helene Roelofs

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Bo Nilsson

Affiliation Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Willem E. Fibbe

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Martin L. Olsson

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Katarina Le Blanc

Affiliations Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM BN WEF MLO KLB. Performed the experiments: GM AH LvB HR JJA NH OH LSF SL YT. Analyzed the data: GM AH LvB HR. Wrote the paper: GM BN MLO KLB. Led the clinical study: WEF KLB.