About the Authors
- Alexander H. Schmidt
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* E-mail: schmidt@dkms.de
Affiliations DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany, DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany
- Ute V. Solloch
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Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Julia Pingel
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Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Jürgen Sauter
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Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany
- Irina Böhme
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Affiliation DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany
- Nezih Cereb
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Affiliation Histogenetics, Ossining, New York, United States of America
- Kinga Dubicka
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Affiliation DKMS Polska, Warsaw, Poland
- Stephan Schumacher
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Affiliations DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany, DKMS Polska, Warsaw, Poland
- Jacek Wachowiak
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Gerhard Ehninger
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Affiliation Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
Competing Interests
Histogenetics Ossining, New York, United States of America, has carried out a large fraction of the HLA typing on which the analyses are based. Histogenetics has no conflict of interest regarding the subject or conclusions of this manuscript. Nezih Cereb is CEO of Histogenetics. He has no conflict of interest regarding the subject or conclusions of this manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: UVS AHS JP JS JW GE. Wrote the paper: AHS. Responsible for HLA typing: IB NC. Responsible for stem cell donor recruitment: KD SS.