About the Authors

Katharina Troppan

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharina Troppan, Sybille Hofer, Kerstin Wenzl, Alexander Deutsch, Peter Neumeister

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Sybille Hofer

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharina Troppan, Sybille Hofer, Kerstin Wenzl, Alexander Deutsch, Peter Neumeister

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Kerstin Wenzl

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharina Troppan, Sybille Hofer, Kerstin Wenzl, Alexander Deutsch, Peter Neumeister

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Markus Lassnig

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Beata Pursche

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Elisabeth Steinbauer

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Marco Wiltgen

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Barbara Zulus

Affiliation Division of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Wilfried Renner

Affiliation Division of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Christine Beham-Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Alexander Deutsch

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharina Troppan, Sybille Hofer, Kerstin Wenzl, Alexander Deutsch, Peter Neumeister

alexander.deutsch@medunigraz.at

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Peter Neumeister

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharina Troppan, Sybille Hofer, Kerstin Wenzl, Alexander Deutsch, Peter Neumeister

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD PN. Performed the experiments: KT SH KW ML ES BP. Analyzed the data: MW BZ WR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBS. Wrote the paper: KT AD PN.