About the Authors

Marion C. Lanteri

mlanteri@bloodsystems.org

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Zhanna Kaidarova

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Trevor Peterson

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Steven Cate

Affiliation HLA Clinical Laboratory, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Brian Custer

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shiquan Wu

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Maria Agapova

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jacqueline P. Law

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas Bielawny

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Frank Plummer

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Leslie H. Tobler

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark Loeb

Affiliations Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Infectious Diseases, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Michael P. Busch

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jonathan Bramson

Affiliation Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Ma Luo

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Philip J. Norris

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Lanteri PJN. Performed the experiments: M. Lanteri TP SC JPL TB. Analyzed the data: M. Lanteri ZK SW MA BC M. Luo PJN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP LHT M. Loeb M. Luo MPB JB. Wrote the paper: M. Lanteri ZK TP SC PJN. Supervised: M. Luo PJN.