About the Authors

René Huber

Contributed equally to this work with: René Huber, Thomas Panterodt, Bastian Welz

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Thomas Panterodt

Contributed equally to this work with: René Huber, Thomas Panterodt, Bastian Welz

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Bastian Welz

Contributed equally to this work with: René Huber, Thomas Panterodt, Bastian Welz

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Martin Christmann

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Judith Friesenhagen

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Andreas Westphal

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Daniel Pietsch

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Korbinian Brand

brand.korbinian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH KB. Performed the experiments: RH TP BW MC JF DP. Analyzed the data: RH TP BW MC JF AW DP KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW. Wrote the paper: RH TP BW KB.