About the Authors

Daniel Guldager Kring Rasmussen

dgr@nordicbio.com

Affiliations Nordic Bioscience, Biomarkers and Research, Herlev, Denmark, University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Cardiovascular and Renal Research, Institute of Clinical Research, Odense, Denmark

Jannie Marie Bülow Sand

Affiliation Nordic Bioscience, Biomarkers and Research, Herlev, Denmark

Morten Asser Karsdal

Affiliation Nordic Bioscience, Biomarkers and Research, Herlev, Denmark

Federica Genovese

Affiliation Nordic Bioscience, Biomarkers and Research, Herlev, Denmark

Competing Interests

DGKR, JMBS, MAK, and FGE are employees and MAK is a shareholder of Nordic Bioscience. The antibody utilized for development of the assay in the manuscript is under patent by Nordic Bioscience. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DGKR FG. Data curation: DGKR. Formal analysis: DGKR. Funding acquisition: DGKR FG. Investigation: DGKR. Methodology: DGKR FG. Project administration: DGKR FG. Resources: JMBS MAK FG. Supervision: MAK FG. Validation: DGKR. Visualization: DGKR. Writing – original draft: DGKR. Writing – review & editing: JMBS MAK FG.