About the Authors

Bethan Swift

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

Affiliations Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bahar Taneri

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus Women’s Health Research Society (CoHERS), Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Research Institute GROW, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ilgin Cagnan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus Women’s Health Research Society (CoHERS), Nicosia, Northern Cyprus

Christian M. Becker

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Krina T. Zondervan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Maria A. Quigley

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

Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nilufer Rahmioglu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nilufer.rahmioglu@wrh.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cyprus Women’s Health Research Society (CoHERS), Nicosia, Northern Cyprus

Competing Interests

CMB declares that he is part of a scientific collaboration between Oxford University and Bayer Healthcare Ltd. for the purpose of drug target identification in endometriosis. He holds/has held research grants from Bayer Healthcare, MDNA Life Sciences and Roche Diagnostics and has in recent years been a consultant for Abbvie Inc., Roche Diagnostics, Myovant and ObsEva. KTZ declares that she has scientific collaborations outside the submitted work with Bayer Healthcare, MDNA Life Sciences, Roche Diagnostics Inc., and Volition Rx and is a Board member (Secretary) of the World Endometriosis Society, Research Advisory Board member of Wellbeing of Women, UK (research charity) and Chair of the Research Directions Working Group, World Endometriosis Society. NR declares that she is the founding president of Cyprus Women’s Health Research Society in Northern Cyprus (CoHERS).