About the Authors

Andries Blokzijl

Contributed equally to this work with: Andries Blokzijl, Lei E. Chen

Affiliations Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 815, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 595, SE-751 24, Uppsala, Sweden

Lei E. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Andries Blokzijl, Lei E. Chen

Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 815, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Sigrun M. Gustafsdottir

Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 815, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Jimmy Vuu

Affiliation Dept. of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Gustav Ullenhag

Affiliation Dept. of Radiology, Oncology and Radiation Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Olle Kämpe

Affiliation Dept. of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Ulf Landegren

Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 815, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Masood Kamali-Moghaddam

Affiliation Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 815, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Håkan Hedstrand

hakan.hedstrand@medsci.uu.se

Affiliation Dept. of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

U.L. is a cofounder and shareholder of Olink Bioscience that commercializes PLA technology. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB LEC SMG UL MKM HH. Performed the experiments: AB LEC SMG JV. Analyzed the data: AB LEC GU OK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB LEC SMG HH. Wrote the paper: AB LEC UL MKM HH.