About the Authors

Christine Elisabeth Janssen

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Elisabeth Janssen, Anna Maria Globig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Anna Maria Globig

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Elisabeth Janssen, Anna Maria Globig

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine II, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany, Berta-Ottenstein-Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Andrea Busse Grawitz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Dominik Bettinger

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Medicine II, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany, Berta-Ottenstein-Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Peter Hasselblatt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Peter.Hasselblatt@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine II, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors declare to have no conflict of interest directly related to this study. Outside of this work, AMG received travel grants from Abbvie and Janssen; PH received lecture fees from Falk foundation, Abbvie, Takeda, MSD as well as Janssen and travel grants from Abbvie and Takeda. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.