About the Authors

Linda Ibeto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Aristotelis Antonopoulos

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Paola Grassi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Poh-Choo Pang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Maria Panico

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Shabnam Bobdiwala

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tommys' National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Queen Charlottes' & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Maya Al-Memar

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tommys' National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Queen Charlottes' & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Paul Davis

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Mologic LTD, Bedford Technology Park, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Mark Davis

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Mologic LTD, Bedford Technology Park, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Julian Norman Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Paula Almeida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Mark R. Johnson

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Richard Harvey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tom Bourne

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tommys' National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Queen Charlottes' & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Michael Seckl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Gary Clark

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Stuart M. Haslam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne Dell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.dell@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

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