About the Authors
- Johanna Scholbach
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Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna Scholbach, Anett Schulz
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Anett Schulz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Johanna Scholbach, Anett Schulz
Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Leipzig, Germany
- Florian Westphal
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Dietmar Egger
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Affiliation Vita34 AG, Leipzig, Germany
- Anja Kathrin Wege
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Affiliation Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Caritas Hospital St. Josef, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Ina Patties
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Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Margarethe Köberle
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Ulrich Sack
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Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Leipzig, Germany
- Franziska Lange
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* E-mail: Franziska.Lange@izi.fraunhofer.de
Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Leipzig, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: one of the authors (DE) is working at Vita34 AG (Leipzig, Germany). This company provided the cryopreserved cord blood samples. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AKW FL US. Performed the experiments: JS AS FW MK IP DE. Analyzed the data: AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS AS FW AKW FL. Wrote the paper: JS AS AKW FL.