About the Authors

Michael W. Pankhurst

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael W. Pankhurst, Christine A. Clark

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Christine A. Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael W. Pankhurst, Christine A. Clark

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, Canada

Judith Zarek

Affiliations LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Carl A. Laskin

Affiliation LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, Canada

Ian S. McLennan

ian.mclennan@otago.ac.nz

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

ISM and MWP have filed a patent pertaining to cleavage-state-specific AMH assays including the proAMH-specific assay used in this manuscript (WO 2014/204327 A1). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. CAC, JZ and CAL have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MWP CAC CAL ISM. Data curation: CAC CAL ISM. Formal analysis: MWP CAC JZ CAL ISM. Funding acquisition: MWP ISM. Methodology: MWP CAC JZ CAL ISM. Writing – original draft: MWP CAC ISM. Writing – review & editing: MWP CAC JZ CAL ISM.