About the Authors

Xiao Wang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefan Björklund

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Agata M. Wasik

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Alf Grandien

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine and Center for Experimental Hematology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Patrik Andersson

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Stockholm South Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Eva Kimby

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Karin Dahlman-Wright

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Chunyan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Birger Christensson

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Birgitta Sander

birgitta.sander@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW AG BC BS. Performed the experiments: XW SB CZ BS. Analyzed the data: XW SB AMW KDW CZ BC BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW SB AMW PA EK KDW CZ BS. Wrote the paper: XW BC BS. Read and approved the manuscript: XW SB AMW AG PA EK KDW BS.