Circulating extracellular DNA is an independent predictor of mortality in elderly patients with venous thromboembolism

• Miguel Jiménez-Alcázar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Jiménez-Alcázar, Andreas Limacher

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Andreas Limacher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel Jiménez-Alcázar, Andreas Limacher

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CTU Bern, and Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Rachita Panda,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Marie Méan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Service of Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Josephine Bitterling,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sven Peine,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Thomas Renné,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Jürg H. Beer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cantonal Hospital of Baden, Baden, and Molecular Cardiology, University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Drahomir Aujesky,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Bernhard Lämmle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bernhard.laemmle@uni-mainz.de (BL); t.fuchs@uke.de (TF)

  Affiliations Department of Hematology, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Tobias A. Fuchs

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bernhard.laemmle@uni-mainz.de (BL); t.fuchs@uke.de (TF)

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-6962

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