About the Authors

Bee K. Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bee K. Tan, Kavitha Sivakumar

Affiliation Divisions of Metabolic & Vascular Health and Reproduction, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Kavitha Sivakumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Bee K. Tan, Kavitha Sivakumar

Affiliation Divisions of Metabolic & Vascular Health and Reproduction, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Muhammad F. Bari

Affiliation Divisions of Metabolic & Vascular Health and Reproduction, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Manu Vatish

Manu.Vatish@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Harpal S. Randeva

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Divisions of Metabolic & Vascular Health and Reproduction, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Please note that one of the co-authors Harpal Randeva is a PLOS ONE editorial board member. The other authors have no competing interests. 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: BKT KS MFB HSR MV. Performed the experiments: BKT KS MFB. Analyzed the data: BKT KS MFB MV HSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV HSR. Wrote the paper: BKT KS MFB HSR MV. Collected samples: BKT KS.