About the Authors

Tom Adriaenssens

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom Adriaenssens, Inge Van Vaerenbergh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Tom.Adriaenssens@Fertiga.com

Affiliation Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium

Inge Van Vaerenbergh

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom Adriaenssens, Inge Van Vaerenbergh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium

Lisbet Van Landuyt

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Greta Verheyen

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Michaël De Brucker

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Michel Camus

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Peter Platteau

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Michel De Vos

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

Affiliation Brussels IVF, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Maria Reis

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

Affiliation Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium

Elien Van Hecke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium

André Rosenthal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium

Johan Smitz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Fertiga, Brussels, Belgium, Follicle Biology Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

IVV and TA reporte employment by Fertiga NV. JS was professor at Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel until September 2019 and is currently Chief Medical Officer at Fertiga NV. EVH is Chief Commercial Officer and AR is Chief Executive Officer at Fertiga NV. EVH, AR and JS report board membership of Fertiga NV, hold stock in Fertiga NV, and receive service fees from Fertiga NV. Other authors declared no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.