About the Authors

Aisling A. Geraghty

Affiliation UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland

Goiuri Alberdi

Affiliation UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland

Elizabeth J. O’Sullivan

Affiliation UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland

Eileen C. O’Brien

Affiliation UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland

Brenda Crosbie

Affiliation Clinical Chemistry, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland

Patrick J. Twomey

Affiliations Clinical Chemistry, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland, UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Fionnuala M. McAuliffe

fionnuala.mcauliffe@ucd.ie

Affiliation UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin 2, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FMMA AAG GA PJT. Data curation: AAG ECOB FMMA. Formal analysis: AAG BC FMMA. Funding acquisition: FMMA. Investigation: AAG GA EJOS FMMA. Methodology: AAG GA EJOS FMMA. Project administration: AAG ECOB FMMA. Resources: AAG PJT FMMA. Supervision: GA EJOS FMMA. Visualization: AAG GA EJOS FMMA. Writing – original draft: AAG GA FMMA. Writing – review & editing: AAG GA EJOS ECOB PJT FMMA.