About the Authors

Osman El-Maarri

osman.elmaarri@ukb.uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Maja Walier

Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Frank Behne

Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jan van Üüm

Contributed equally to this work with: Maja Walier, Frank Behne, Jan van Üüm

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Heike Singer

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Amalia Diaz-Lacava

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Nicole Nüsgen

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Barbara Niemann

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Matthias Watzka

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jochen Reinsberg

Affiliation Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Hans van der Ven

Affiliation Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Thomas Wienker

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Birgit Stoffel-Wagner

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Rainer Schwaab

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Johannes Oldenburg

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OEM. Performed the experiments: FB JvÜ HS NN. Analyzed the data: OEM MW ADL TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BN MW JR HvdV BSW RS JO. Wrote the paper: OEM.