About the Authors

Johanna Wiik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

johanna.wiik@gu.se

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Østfold Hospital Trust, Kalnes, Norway, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Staffan Nilsson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Cecilia Kärrberg

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, Regional Cancer Centre West, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden

Björn Strander

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Regional Cancer Centre West, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden

Bo Jacobsson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Division of Health Data and Digitalisation, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Verena Sengpiel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

I have read the journal´s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CK has research grants for clinical trial Assar Gabrielsson’s Foundation for Cancer-Related Clinical Research, Hjalmar Svensson’s Research Foundation. She is presently head of one Swedish site of a multicenter international academic clinical HPV-vaccine trial where the sponsor, Imperial College, London, receive some support from MSD. She is a member of the Screening and colposcopy national guidelines committee, and she is the secretary of The Swedish Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Cancer Prevention/C-ARG. She has received reimbursement from Gedeon Richter for lectures on meeting arranged by the company. BS has research grants for clinical trial by the Governmental agreement with Swedish counties, ALF, and by the Region of Västra Götaland. He is presently Swedish head of an multicenter international academic clinical HPV-vaccine trial where the sponsor, Imperial College, London, receive some support from MSD. The past five years he has served as chairman of the Swedish Cervical screening coordinating committee, as chairman of the Screening and colposcopy national guidelines committee, and as head of the Cervical screening process register. He has been a member of the National Board of health and welfare evaluation committee for the Cervical screening program. He has received no financial support or reimbursement from commercial companies for any activity. BJ has research grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Research Council of Norway, the March of Dimes, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. During the last five years, he has performed clinical diagnostic trials for Ariosa, Natera, Vanadis, and Hologic with reimbursement costs per recruited patient. He has conducted clinical trials on probiotics in pregnancy in collaboration with BioGaia and FukoPharma. He has also been involved in the IMPACT study where Roche and Thermo Fisher paid for PLGF-analyzes. He has also arranged scientific meetings with commercial partners (ESPBC 2016) and a Nordic educational meeting on NIPT and preeclampsia screening (2017). No lectures, travel, or personal reimbursements from the companies.