About the Authors

Michelle Fernandes

michelle.fernandes@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alan Stein

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Charles R. Newton

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Leila Cheikh-Ismail

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael Kihara

Affiliations Department of Psychology, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Katharina Wulff

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Enrique de León Quintana

Affiliation Centro de Tecnología e Innovación, Mexico City, Mexico

Luis Aranzeta

Affiliation Centro de Tecnología e Innovación, Mexico City, Mexico

Aureli Soria-Frisch

Affiliation Neuroscience Business Unit, Starlab Barcelona, SL, Barcelona, Spain

Javier Acedo

Affiliation Neuroscience Business Unit, Starlab Barcelona, SL, Barcelona, Spain

David Ibanez

Affiliation Neuroscience Business Unit, Starlab Barcelona, SL, Barcelona, Spain

Amina Abubakar

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Francesca Giuliani

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Pediatriche e dell' Adolescenza, SCDU Neonatologia, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy

Tamsin Lewis

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stephen Kennedy

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jose Villar

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

for the International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century (INTERGROWTH-21st)

Membership of the International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century (INTERGROWTH-21st) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have read the Journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Aureli Soria-Frisch, David Ibanez and Javier Acedo are employed by Neuroscience Business Unit, Starlab, Spain. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF AS CN LCI MK KW EL LA ASF DI JA AA FG SK JV. Performed the experiments: MF AS CN SK JV LCI TL AA. Analyzed the data: MF AS CN SK JV AA MK KW DI ASF JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF CN AS AA LA EL MK KW ASF DI JA. Wrote the paper: MF CN AS SK JV TL AA KW ASF MK.