About the Authors

Rezaul Karim

Contributed equally to this work with: Rezaul Karim, Bart Tummers

Affiliations Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Bart Tummers

Contributed equally to this work with: Rezaul Karim, Bart Tummers

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Craig Meyers

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jennifer L. Biryukov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Samina Alam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Claude Backendorf

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Veena Jha

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Rienk Offringa

Current address: German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Gert-Jan B. van Ommen

Affiliation Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Cornelis J. M. Melief

Affiliation Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Daniele Guardavaccaro

Affiliation Hubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Judith M. Boer

Affiliation Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Sjoerd H. van der Burg

shvdburg@lumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK BT SA CJMM JMB DG SHvdB. Performed the experiments: RK BT JLB SA VJ JMB. Analyzed the data: RK BT SA CM CJMM JMB DG SHvdB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM CB RO G-JBvO JMB DG SHvdB. Wrote the paper: RK BT RO G-JBvO CJMM JMB DG SHvdB.