About the Authors

Orit Uziel

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Einat Beery

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Vladimir Dronichev

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Katty Samocha

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Sergei Gryaznov

Affiliation Geron Corporation, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Lola Weiss

Affiliation Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Shimon Slavin

Affiliation Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Michal Kushnir

Affiliation Rosetta Genomics Ltd, Rehovot, Israel

Yardena Nordenberg

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Claudette Rabinowitz

Affiliation National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel

Baruch Rinkevich

Affiliation National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel

Tania Zehavi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel

Meir Lahav

mlahav@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OU ML. Performed the experiments: OU EB VD KS LW MK CR BR TZ. Analyzed the data: OU VD KS LW SS MK YN CR BR TZ ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG LW MK YN CR BR TZ ML. Wrote the paper: OU ML.