About the Authors

Ines Potočnjak

ines.potocnjak@yahoo.com (IP); gunther.marsche@medunigraz.at (GM); sasa.frank@medunigraz.at (SF)

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation University Hospital Centre Sisters of Charity, Department of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Vesna Degoricija

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations University Hospital Centre Sisters of Charity, Department of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Matias Trbušić

Affiliations University Hospital Centre Sisters of Charity, Department of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Sanda Dokoza Terešak

Affiliation University Hospital Centre Sisters of Charity, Department of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Bojana Radulović

Affiliation University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Gudrun Pregartner

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics und Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Andrea Berghold

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics und Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Beate Tiran

Affiliation Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Gunther Marsche

ines.potocnjak@yahoo.com (IP); gunther.marsche@medunigraz.at (GM); sasa.frank@medunigraz.at (SF)

Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Saša Frank

ines.potocnjak@yahoo.com (IP); gunther.marsche@medunigraz.at (GM); sasa.frank@medunigraz.at (SF)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Centre of Molecular Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP VD SF GM. Performed the experiments: IP MT SDT BR. Analyzed the data: IP VD AB GP BT SF GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BT SF GM. Wrote the paper: IP VD AB GP GM SF.