About the Authors

Rakel Brendsdal Forthun

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Hematology Section, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Tanima SenGupta

Affiliation The Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Hanne Kim Skjeldam

Affiliation The Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jessica Margareta Lindvall

Current address: Huddinge Genomics Core Facilities, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Affiliation The Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Emmet McCormack

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Hematology Section, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Hematology Section, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

bjorn.gjertsen@med.uib.no (BTG); hilde.nilsen@biotek.uio.no (HN)

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Hematology Section, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Hematology Section, Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Hilde Nilsen

bjorn.gjertsen@med.uib.no (BTG); hilde.nilsen@biotek.uio.no (HN)

Affiliation The Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BTG HN EM. Performed the experiments: RBF TS HKS EM. Analyzed the data: RBF TS JML HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JML. Wrote the paper: RBF BTG HN.