About the Authors

Nahed El-Najjar

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Evelyn Orsó

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Stefan Wallner

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerhard Liebisch

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerd Schmitz

gerd.schmitz@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EO GS. Performed the experiments: EO GL. Analyzed the data: NELN SW. Wrote the paper: NELN GS.