About the Authors

Leonid Margolis

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonid Margolis, Yoel Sadovsky

ysadovsky@mwri.magee.edu (YS); margolil@mail.nih.gov (LM)

Affiliation Section for Intercellular Interactions, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yoel Sadovsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonid Margolis, Yoel Sadovsky

ysadovsky@mwri.magee.edu (YS); margolil@mail.nih.gov (LM)

Affiliations Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Margolis has declared that no competing interests exist. Dr. Sadovsky is a member of a Clinical Expert Advisory Panel to Illumina, Inc.