About the Authors

Kati Hyvärinen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kati.hyvarinen@bloodservice.fi

Affiliation Research and Development, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland

Katri Haimila

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Blood Group Unit, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Vantaa, Finland

Camous Moslemi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Immunology, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark, Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Blood Service Biobank

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Vantaa, Finland

Martin L. Olsson

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Office for Medical Services, Region Skåne, Sweden

Sisse R. Ostrowski

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ole B. Pedersen

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Immunology, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christian Erikstrup

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Jukka Partanen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland

Jarmo Ritari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: M.L.O. is an inventor on patents about Vel blood group genotyping (unrelated to the methods and models presented in this study) and owns 50% each of the shares in BLUsang AB, an incorporated consulting firm, which receives royalties for said patents. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.