About the Authors

Sabine Heublein

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Doris Mayr

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Vrekoussis

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Klaus Friese

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Simone S. Hofmann

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Udo Jeschke

Contributed equally to this work with: Udo Jeschke, Miriam Lenhard

udo.jeschke@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Miriam Lenhard

Contributed equally to this work with: Udo Jeschke, Miriam Lenhard

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH ML UJ KF. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH DM TV UJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSH. Wrote the paper: SH TV ML.