About the Authors
- Peadar S. Waters
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Contributed equally to this work with: Peadar S. Waters, Roisin M. Dwyer
Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Roisin M. Dwyer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Peadar S. Waters, Roisin M. Dwyer
* E-mail: roisin.dwyer@nuigalway.ie
Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Cathy Brougham
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Claire L. Glynn
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Deirdre Wall
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Affiliation HRB Clinical Research Facility and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Peter Hyland
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Maria Duignan
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Mark McLoughlin
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
- John Newell
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Affiliation HRB Clinical Research Facility and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Michael J. Kerin
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Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RD MK. Performed the experiments: PW RD CB CG PH MD MM. Analyzed the data: PW RD CG CB DW JN MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD MK. Wrote the paper: PW RD CG CB.