About the Authors

Abdelmajid Eloualid

abdelmajideloualid@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco, Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik, Casablanca, Morocco

Omar Abidi

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Majida Charif

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Brahim El houate

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Houda Benrahma

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Noureddine Louanjli

Affiliation In Vitro Fecondation Center, Casablanca, Morocco

Elbakkay Chadli

Affiliation Cytogenetic Unit, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Maria Ajjemami

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Abdelhamid Barakat

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Anu Bashamboo

Affiliation Human Developmental Genetics Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Ken McElreavey

Affiliation Human Developmental Genetics Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Houria Rhaissi

Affiliation Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik, Casablanca, Morocco

Hassan Rouba

Affiliation Human Genetic Unit, Research Department, Pasteur Institute, Casablanca, Morocco

Competing Interests

Noureddine Louanjli is employed by In Vitro Fecondation Center, 40 Rue Prince Moulay Abedelah 20 000, Casablanca, Morocco. No other authors have any conflicts to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE OA HR. Performed the experiments: AE OA MC. Analyzed the data: AE KM HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE BE HB NL EC MA AB. Wrote the paper: AE KM.