Mock, Andreas
Zschäbitz, Stefanie
Kirsten, Romy
Scheffler, Matthias
Wolf, Barbara
Herold-Mende, Christel
Kramer, Rebecca
Busch, Elena
Jenzer, Maximilian
Jäger, Dirk
Grüllich, Carsten
Article History
Received: 23 March 2019
Accepted: 1 November 2019
First Online: 7 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Matthias Scheffler and Barbara Wolf are employed by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG. The other authors have declared no competing interests.
: The ethics committee of the University of Heidelberg, Germany approved the study design (S023/2016). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All patients provided written informed consent. Informed consent included the permission to take blood samples for research purposes and the use of their anonymized clinical data. Any patient identifiable information was excluded from further sample handling and data processing.