About the Authors

Payam Delfani

Affiliation Department of Immunotechnology and CREATE Health, Lund University, Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden

Linda Dexlin Mellby

Affiliations Department of Immunotechnology and CREATE Health, Lund University, Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden, Immunovia AB, Lund, Sweden

Malin Nordström

Affiliation Immunovia AB, Lund, Sweden

Andreas Holmér

Affiliation Immunovia AB, Lund, Sweden

Mattias Ohlsson

Affiliation Computational Biology & Biological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Carl A. K. Borrebaeck

Affiliation Department of Immunotechnology and CREATE Health, Lund University, Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden

Christer Wingren

christer.wingren@immun.lth.se

Affiliation Department of Immunotechnology and CREATE Health, Lund University, Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

Linda Dexlin Mellby, Malin Nordström, and Andreas Holmér are employed by Immunovia that is a diagnostic company using array technologies for biomarker discovery. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD LDM MO CAKB CW. Performed the experiments: PD LDM MN AH. Analyzed the data: PD LDM MO CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD MN AH MO. Wrote the paper: PD LDM MN AH MO CAKB CW.