Regarding a potential leukocyte contamination of the platelet RNA-Seq, median CD45 expression measured by the ENSG00000081237 gene was 3.0 [1.3–6.7] normalised counts in samples from patients with sepsis and 4.6 [2.0–7.5] normalised counts in samples from control patients (p = 0.57). Here, PTPRC is linked to Sepsis.