About the Authors

Johannes Weinberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Weinberger, Raul Jimenez-Heredia

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Linz, Austria, Department of Immunogenetics, Red Cross Transfusion Service of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria

Raul Jimenez-Heredia

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Weinberger, Raul Jimenez-Heredia

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Linz, Austria, Department of Immunogenetics, Red Cross Transfusion Service of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria

Susanne Schaller

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Group, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria

Susanne Suessner

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Linz, Austria, Department of Immunogenetics, Red Cross Transfusion Service of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria

Judith Sunzenauer

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, KH Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Roman Reindl-Schwaighofer

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, KH Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Richard Weiss

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Stephan Winkler

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Group, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria

Christian Gabriel

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Linz, Austria, Department of Immunogenetics, Red Cross Transfusion Service of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria

Martin Danzer

martin.danzer@o.roteskreuz.at (MD); rainer.oberbauer@meduniwien.ac.at (RO)

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Linz, Austria, Department of Immunogenetics, Red Cross Transfusion Service of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria

Rainer Oberbauer

martin.danzer@o.roteskreuz.at (MD); rainer.oberbauer@meduniwien.ac.at (RO)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine III, KH Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW RJ CG MD SW RW RO. Performed the experiments: JW RJ S. Suessner JS. Analyzed the data: JW RJ MD S. Schaller RR RW SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG RO. Wrote the paper: JW RJ MD S. Schaller RR SW RO. Critical revision of article for intellectual content: MD RW SW CG RO.