About the Authors
- Nandor Gabor Than
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* E-mail: nthan@med.wayne.edu
Affiliations First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Roberto Romero
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Affiliation Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Hamutal Meiri
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Affiliations Diagnostic Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, TeleMarpeh Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
- Offer Erez
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Affiliations Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology “B”, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
- Yi Xu
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Affiliation Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Federica Tarquini
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Affiliation Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Laszlo Barna
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Affiliation Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Andras Szilagyi
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Affiliation Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Ron Ackerman
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Affiliation Diagnostic Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, Israel
- Marei Sammar
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Affiliations Diagnostic Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, ORT Braude College, Karmiel, Israel
- Tibor Fule
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Affiliation First Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Katalin Karaszi
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Affiliations First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, First Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Ilona Kovalszky
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Affiliation First Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Zhong Dong
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Affiliation Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Chong Jai Kim
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Affiliation Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Peter Zavodszky
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Affiliation Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Zoltan Papp
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Affiliation First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Ron Gonen
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Competing Interests
Dr. Hamutal Meiri was the former CEO and Director of Diagnostic Technologies Ltd (DTL) and had options for ordinary shares of the company, accounting for 3.5% of all issued shares on a fully diluted basis until the company went out of business and all options and shares were void. Dr. Sammar Marei and Dr. Hamutal Meiri were employees of DTL and their salaries were paid in part from the grants sponsoring this research. Dr. Ron Gonen obtained consulting fees at the time of patient enrollment to the clinical study but not during data analysis and manuscript writing. The authors have declared that no competing interests currently exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Designed and conceived the overall study and experiments: NGT. Designed and managed the clinical study and/or analyzed clinical data: NGT RR HM OE RG. Performed experiments: NGT YX FT RA MS TF KK. Analyzed and interpreted experimental data: NGT RR HM OE YX LB AS MS IK ZD CJK PZ ZP RG. Wrote or critically reviewed the manuscript: NGT RR HM OE YX FT LB AS RA MS TF KK IK ZD CJK PZ ZP RG.