About the Authors

Dagmara McGuinness

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

Johannes Leierer

Affiliation Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Olivier Shapter

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

Suhaib Mohammed

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

Marc Gingell-Littlejohn

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

David B. Kingsmore

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Renal Transplant Unit, Ward 4c, South Glasgow University Hospital, Glasgow, G51 4TF, Scotland

Ann-Margaret Little

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Laboratory Medicine Building, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, G12 0XL, Scotland

Julia Kerschbaum

Affiliation Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Stefan Schneeberger

Affiliation Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Manuel Maglione

Affiliation Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Silvio Nadalin

Affiliation Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Universitätsklinik für Allgemeine, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Transplantationszentrum, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Sylvia Wagner

Affiliation Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Klinik für AllgemeineViszeral und Transplantationschirurgie, Chirurgische Studienzentale, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Alfred Königsrainer

Affiliation Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Universitätsklinik für Allgemeine, Viszeralund Transplantationschirurgie, CRONA, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Emma Aitken

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Renal Transplant Unit, Ward 4c, South Glasgow University Hospital, Glasgow, G51 4TF, Scotland

Henry Whalen

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

Marc Clancy

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Renal Transplant Unit, Ward 4c, South Glasgow University Hospital, Glasgow, G51 4TF, Scotland

Alex McConnachie

Affiliation Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Christian Koppelstaetter

Affiliation Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Karen S. Stevenson

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Renal Transplant Unit, Ward 4c, South Glasgow University Hospital, Glasgow, G51 4TF, Scotland

Paul G. Shiels

paul.shiels@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Wolfson Wohl Translational Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS. Performed the experiments: DM HW MGL CK JL JK SN AK SS SW MM. Analyzed the data: DM SM OS KS DK AM. Wrote the paper: PS DM KS DK OS. Clinical database and clinical input: KS DK MC MGL OS EA A-ML. Clinical database and input for validation cohort: CK JL JK SN AK SS SW MM. Statistical modelling: DM AM KS OS SM.