About the Authors

Camilla Krakstad

Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Krakstad, Even Birkeland

camilla.krakstad@med.uib.no

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Even Birkeland

Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Krakstad, Even Birkeland

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Danila Seidel

Affiliations Department of Translational Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany, Laboratory of Translational Cancer Genomics, Center of Integrated Oncology Köln – Bonn, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Kanthida Kusonmano

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Computational Biology Unit, Uni Computing, Uni Research AS, Bergen, Norway

Kjell Petersen

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit, Uni Computing, Uni Research AS, Bergen, Norway

Siv Mjøs

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Erling A. Hoivik

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Elisabeth Wik

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Mari Kyllesø Halle

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Anne M. Øyan

Affiliations The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Karl-Henning Kalland

Affiliations The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Henrica Maria Johanna Werner

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Jone Trovik

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Helga Salvesen

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CK EB HBS. Performed the experiments: CK EB DS SM EAH MKH AMØ. Analyzed the data: CK EB SM EAH KK EW HBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP MKH KHK HMJW JT. Wrote the paper: CK EB DS HBS.