About the Authors

Danny T. M. Leung

Affiliation Clinical Immunology Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Pak-Leong Lim

pllim@iggene.com (PLL); tonychung@cuhk.edu.hk (TKHC)

Affiliations Clinical Immunology Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, IgGENE, Fo Tan, Hong Kong SAR, China

Tak-Hong Cheung

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Raymond R. Y. Wong

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

So-Fan Yim

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Margaret H. L. Ng

Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Frankie C. H. Tam

Affiliations Clinical Immunology Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, IgGENE, Fo Tan, Hong Kong SAR, China

Tony K. H. Chung

pllim@iggene.com (PLL); tonychung@cuhk.edu.hk (TKHC)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yick-Fu Wong

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YFW DTML PLL. Performed the experiments: DTML RRYW FCHT. Analyzed the data: DTML PLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THC SFY MHLN TKHC PLL YFW. Wrote the paper: PLL. Designed assays/experiments: PLL DTML.