About the Authors

Sandra Wathlet

swathlet@vub.ac.be

Affiliation Follicle Biology Laboratory, UZ Brussel, Belgium

Tom Adriaenssens

Affiliation Follicle Biology Laboratory, UZ Brussel, Belgium

Ingrid Segers

Affiliation Follicle Biology Laboratory, UZ Brussel, Belgium

Greta Verheyen

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Lisbet Van Landuyt

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Wim Coucke

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Paul Devroey

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Johan Smitz

Affiliation Follicle Biology Laboratory, UZ Brussel, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Selection of the patients, scored the embryos and revised the manuscript: LVL GV. Supervised the work at the clinical centre: PD. Conceived and designed the experiments: SW TA JS. Performed the experiments: SW. Analyzed the data: SW TA IS WC. Wrote the paper: SW TA JS.