About the Authors

Xin Huang

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Pathology, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

Anke van den Berg

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Zifen Gao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

Lydia Visser

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ilja Nolte

Affiliation Unit of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Hans Vos

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Bouke Hepkema

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Wierd Kooistra

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Sibrand Poppema

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Arjan Diepstra

a.diepstra@path.umcg.nl

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvdB ZG LV BGH SP AD. Performed the experiments: XH HV WK. Analyzed the data: XH AvdB IMN AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG. Wrote the paper: XH AD.