RNA from stabilized whole blood enables more comprehensive immune gene expression profiling compared to RNA from peripheral blood mononuclear cells

• Fleur van der Sijde,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-4918

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• Yunlei Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Clinical Bioinformatics Unit, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Rick Schraauwen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tumor Immuno-Pathology Laboratory, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Willem de Koning,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Clinical Bioinformatics Unit, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4594-8423

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• Casper H. J. van Eijck,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Dana A. M. Mustafa

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.mustafa@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tumor Immuno-Pathology Laboratory, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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