About the Authors

Martin Horlitz

martin.horlitz@qiagen.com

Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, R&D Department, Hilden, Germany

Annabelle Lucas

Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, R&D Department, Hilden, Germany

Markus Sprenger-Haussels

Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, R&D Department, Hilden, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors of the submitted manuscript are currently employees of QIAGEN GmbH. Markus Sprenger-Haussels also holds QIAGEN stock options.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH AL MSH. Performed the experiments: AL. Analyzed the data: MH AL MSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: MH.