About the Authors

Ibrahim El-Serafi

Affiliation Experimental Cancer Medicine (ECM), Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Parvaneh Afsharian

Current address: Pharmacogenetics Group, Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran

Affiliation Experimental Cancer Medicine (ECM), Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Ali Moshfegh

Affiliation Cancer Center of Karolinska (CCK), Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Moustapha Hassan

Moustapha.Hassan@ki.se

Affiliations Experimental Cancer Medicine (ECM), Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Research Centre, Karolinska University Hospital-Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Ylva Terelius

Affiliation Department of Discovery Research, Medivir AB, Huddinge, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors assure that Dr. Ylva Terelius, who is employed at Department of Discovery Research, Medivir AB, Huddinge, Sweden, has no conflict of interest in the present paper. Medivir as a company has nothing to do with cancer treatment/research or with bone marrow transplantation. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH YT IES. Performed the experiments: IES PA AM. Analyzed the data: IES PA AM YT MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM MH. Wrote the paper: IES PA AM YT MH.