About the Authors

Anna Keravnou

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Translational Genetics Team, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Marios Ioannides

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Charalambos Loizides

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Kyriakos Tsangaras

Roles Methodology

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Achilleas Achilleos

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Petros Mina

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Elena Kypri

Roles Methodology

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Michael D. Hadjidaniel

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Translational Genetics Team, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Maria Neofytou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Translational Genetics Team, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Skevi Kyriacou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Carolina Sismani

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Cytogenetics and Genomics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

George Koumbaris

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Philippos C. Patsalis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization

p.patsalis@nipd.com

Affiliations Translational Genetics Team, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, NIPD Genetics Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MI, GK, CL, PM, AA, KT, EK, PCP, SK are employed by NIPD Genetics LTD. PCP has filed a PCT patent application for the MeDIP real time qPCR based NIPD approach (PCT Patent Application No. PCT/1B2011/000217). The authors AK, MHD, MN and CS declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.