About the Authors

Alexander H. Schmidt

schmidt@dkms.de

Affiliations DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany, DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany

Ute V. Solloch

Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany

Julia Pingel

Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany

Jürgen Sauter

Affiliation DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany

Irina Böhme

Affiliation DKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany

Nezih Cereb

Affiliation Histogenetics, Ossining, New York, United States of America

Kinga Dubicka

Affiliation DKMS Polska, Warsaw, Poland

Stephan Schumacher

Affiliations DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany, DKMS Polska, Warsaw, Poland

Jacek Wachowiak

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Gerhard Ehninger

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.