About the Authors

Terry Fei Fan Ng

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

Nikola O. Kondov

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

Nobuhito Hayashimoto

Affiliation ICLAS Monitoring Center, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan

Ritsuki Uchida

Affiliation ICLAS Monitoring Center, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan

Yunhee Cha

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

Ashley I. Beyer

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

Walt Wong

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

Patricia A. Pesavento

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Hiroshi Suemizu

Affiliation Biomedical Research Department, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan

Marcus O. Muench

mmuench@bloodsystems.org (MOM); edelwart@bloodsystems.org (ED)

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

Eric Delwart

mmuench@bloodsystems.org (MOM); edelwart@bloodsystems.org (ED)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN NH HS MOM ED. Performed the experiments: TN NOK RU YC AIB WW PAP MOM. Analyzed the data: TN NOK NH RU YC WW PAP MOM ED. Wrote the paper: TN NOK MOM ED.