About the Authors

Miriam Schulz

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Schulz, Darja Karpova, Vera Binder, Halvard Bönig

Affiliation German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg-Hesse, Frankfurt, Germany

Darja Karpova

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Schulz, Darja Karpova, Vera Binder, Halvard Bönig

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Gabriele Spohn

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Annette Damert

Current address: Babes-Bolyai University Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Bio-Nano-Sciences, Molecular Biology Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Erhard Seifried

Affiliations German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg-Hesse, Frankfurt, Germany, Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Vera Binder

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Schulz, Darja Karpova, Vera Binder, Halvard Bönig

Current address: Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Halvard Bönig

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Schulz, Darja Karpova, Vera Binder, Halvard Bönig

h.boenig@blutspende.de

Affiliations German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg-Hesse, Frankfurt, Germany, Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES VB HB MS DK. Performed the experiments: MS DK GS AD. Analyzed the data: MS HB. Wrote the paper: MS HB.