About the Authors

Miriam Hensel

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Rebecca Steurer

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Juergen Fichtl

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Carsten Elger

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Frank Wedekind

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Andreas Petzold

Affiliation Pharma Research Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Tilman Schlothauer

Affiliation Pharma Research Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Michael Molhoj

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Dietmar Reusch

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Patrick Bulau

patrick.bulau@roche.com

Affiliation Pharma Development Penzberg, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of the commercial company Roche Diagnostics GmbH. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB MH. Performed the experiments: MH RS JF CE FW AP TS DR. Analyzed the data: PB MH RS MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB DR. Wrote the paper: PB MM.