About the Authors

Johan Puts

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Monique de Groot

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Martin Haex

Affiliation Life Science group, Agilent Technologies, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

Bernadette Jakobs

B.Jakobs@elisabeth.nl

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Martin Haex is employed by Agilent Technologies. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP MG MH BJ. Performed the experiments: JP. Analyzed the data: JP MG MH BJ. Wrote the paper: JP BJ. Read and corrected the paper and added suggestions: JP MG MH BJ.