About the Authors

Juraj Gazdarica

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

juraj.gazdarica@geneton.sk

Affiliations Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Geneton Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia, Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava, Slovakia

Natalia Forgacova

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Comenius University Science Park, Bratislava, Slovakia, Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Tomas Sladecek

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Geneton Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia, Comenius University Science Park, Bratislava, Slovakia

Marcel Kucharik

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Geneton Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia, Comenius University Science Park, Bratislava, Slovakia

Jaroslav Budis

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Geneton Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia, Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava, Slovakia, Comenius University Science Park, Bratislava, Slovakia

Michaela Hyblova

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Trisomy test Ltd., Nitra, Slovakia

Martina Sekelska

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Trisomy test Ltd., Nitra, Slovakia

Andrej Gnip

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Medirex Inc., Bratislava, Slovakia

Gabriel Minarik

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Trisomy test Ltd., Nitra, Slovakia

Tomas Szemes

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Geneton Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia, Comenius University Science Park, Bratislava, Slovakia

Competing Interests

JG, JB, MK, TSl and TSz are the employees of Geneton Ltd., which participated in the development of the commercial NIPT test in Slovakia. MH, MS and GM are the employees of Trisomy test Ltd. AG is an employee of Medirex Inc. All remaining authors have declared no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.