About the Authors

Cynthia Vierra-Green

Affiliation Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

David Roe

Affiliation National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lihua Hou

Affiliation Departments of Oncology and Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Carolyn Katovich Hurley

Affiliation Departments of Oncology and Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Raja Rajalingam

Affiliation UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Elaine Reed

Affiliation UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tatiana Lebedeva

Affiliation American Red Cross, HLA Laboratory, Dedham, Massachussets, United States of America

Neng Yu

Affiliation American Red Cross, HLA Laboratory, Dedham, Massachussets, United States of America

Mary Stewart

Affiliation University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Harriet Noreen

Affiliation University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jill A. Hollenbach

Affiliations Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lisbeth A. Guethlein

Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Tao Wang

Affiliation Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Stephen Spellman

Affiliation Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Martin Maiers

mmaiers@nmdp.org

Affiliation National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CVG DR CKH SS MM JH. Performed the experiments: CVG DR LH CKH RR ER TL HN NY MS. Analyzed the data: CVG DR CKH JH LG TW MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CVG DR LH CKH RR ER TL NY MS HN. Wrote the paper: CVG DR CKH JH MM.