About the Authors

Xin Huang

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

Bouke Hepkema

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

Ilja Nolte

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

Kushi Kushekhar

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

Theo Jongsma

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

Rianne Veenstra

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

Sibrand Poppema

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

Arjan Diepstra

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

Anke van den Berg

a.van.den.berg01@umcg.nl

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvdB ZG SP BH LV AD. Performed the experiments: XH KK TJ RV. Analyzed the data: XH IN AD BH AvdB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG BH. Wrote the paper: XH AD AvdB.