About the Authors

Sveinung Wergeland Sørbye

sveinung.sorbye@unn.no

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, The University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Marc Arbyn

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Silje Fismen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, The University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Tore Jarl Gutteberg

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, The University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Elin Synnøve Mortensen

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pathology, The University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SWS SF TJG ESM. Performed the experiments: SWS SF TJG ESM. Analyzed the data: SWS MA SF TJG ESM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWS MA SF TJG ESM. Wrote the paper: SWS MA SF TJG ESM.