About the Authors

Irene Weibrecht

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Weibrecht, Ida Grundberg

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Ida Grundberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Weibrecht, Ida Grundberg

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Mats Nilsson

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Ola Söderberg

ola.soderberg@igp.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

IW and IG declare no competing financial interest. OS owns options in the company Olink Biosciences, commercializing the PLA and padlock probe technologies, and MN owns shares in the same company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IW IG MN OS. Performed the experiments: IW IG. Analyzed the data: IW IG. Wrote the paper: IW IG MN OS.