About the Authors

Maria Magkana

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

mmagkana@hotmail.com

Affiliations School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Cytology, "Alexandra" General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Panagiota Mentzelopoulou

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cytology, "Alexandra" General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Ekaterini Magkana

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cytology, "Alexandra" General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Andreas Pampanos

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Genetics, "Alexandra" General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Georgios Daskalakis

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Ekaterini Domali

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Alexandros Rodolakis

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Kalliopi Pappa

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

Affiliations 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Cell and Gene Therapy Laboratory, Centre of Basic Research II, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Roche Diagnostics (Hellas) S.A partially supported the statistical analysis of the current study (No 16742). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.