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Correspondence: Thierry Hennet, thierry.hennet@uzh.ch
Author contributions: TH designed the study and secured the funding. TR and DB submitted the ethical approval and organized the blood samples. KK performed and analyzed the experiments. YL performed the array experiments. KK and TH wrote the manuscript. TR, DB, DS, and YL revised the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
We thank the staff, nurses and the laboratory of transfusion medicine (University Hospital Zurich) for helping to organize the supply of blood samples. Parts of the data analysis of array data were performed with support from Lennart Opitz, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, UZH & ETH, Zurich.
Disclosures: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
This work was supported by the Swiss National Foundation grant 314730_172880 and by Novartis FreeNovation to TH and partially supported by the Emory Comprehensive Glycomics Core (ECGC), which is an Emory Integrated Core Facility subsidized by the Emory University School of Medicine.
© 2020 Kappler, Restin, Lasanajak, Smith, Bassler and Hennet.