About the Authors

Peadar S. Waters

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Peadar S. Waters, Roisin M. Dwyer

roisin.dwyer@nuigalway.ie

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Cathy Brougham

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Claire L. Glynn

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Deirdre Wall

Affiliation HRB Clinical Research Facility and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

Peter Hyland

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Maria Duignan

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Mark McLoughlin

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

John Newell

Affiliation HRB Clinical Research Facility and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

Michael J. Kerin

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.