About the Authors

David Quarcoo

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Dörthe Brüggmann

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Doris Klingelhöfer

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

David A. Groneberg

occup-med@uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DQ DB DK DAG. Performed the experiments: DQ DK DAG. Analyzed the data: DQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAG. Wrote the paper: DQ DB DK DAG.