About the Authors

Andrew W. Horne

andrew.horne@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jeremy K. Brown

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Junko Nio-Kobayashi

Affiliations MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Laboratory of Histology and Cytology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Hazirah B. Z. Abidin

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Zety E. H. A. Adin

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lyndsey Boswell

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stewart Burgess

Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, United Kingdom

Kai-Fai Lee

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

W. Colin Duncan

Affiliation MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWH JKB JN-K KFL WCD. Performed the experiments: JKB JN-K HBZA ZEHAA SB LB. Analyzed the data: AWH JKB SB WCD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AWH SB WCD. Wrote the paper: AWH JKB WCD.