Table 1

Characteristics of individuals from whom autopsy samples were obtained

Individual	Age (years)	Time between death and DNA sampling (hrs)	Cause of death	Erythrocyte transfusion	Monoclonal diseases	Cytostatic therapy	Sepsis	Tissues not in analysis	AR	PCSK1N	SLITRK4
1	57	3	Blood loss	On day of death	Squamous carcinoma of oesophagus	Yes, until 4 months before death	No		I	I	I
2	67	50	Mesenteric ischaemia	4 days before death	No	No	No		I	I	I
3	45	25	Meningitis	No	No	No	No		I	I	I
4	85	33	Myocardial infarction	No	No	No	No		I	I	NI
5	63	51	Complications of lung transplantation	10 days before death	No	No	Yes		I	I	NI
6	44	56	Cardiac failure	No	No	No	No		I	NI	I
7	1	22	Pneumonia	On day of death	No	No	Yes		I	NI	I
8	59	28	Multiorgan failure, sepsis	1 day before death	No	No	Yes		NI	I	I
9	51	66	Myocardial infarction	On day of death	No	No	No	Liver, transplant	NI	I	I
10	66	24	Metastatic monoclonal disease	18 days before death	Squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder	No	No		I	NI	NI
11	46	20	Complications of liver transplantation	1 day before death	No	No	Yes	Liver, transplant	I	NI	NI
12	62	19	Myocardial infarction	No	No	No	No	Heart	NI	NI	I

In columns AR, PCSK1N and SLITRK4 ‘I’ denotes if an individual was informative for the respective assay, ‘NI’ means the individual was not informative.