The uterine secretome initiates growth of gynecologic tissues in ectopic locations

• Jan Sunde ,

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

  * E-mail: Jan@sunde.cx

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9855-2484

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• Morgan Wasickanin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States of America

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• Tiffany A. Katz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Laurel Gillette,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Investigation, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States of America

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• Sanam Bidadi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Derek O’Neil,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Ramya Masand,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX, United States of America

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• Richard O. Burney,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States of America, Department of Clinical Investigation, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Kathleen A. Pennington

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Basic Sciences Perinatology Research Laboratories, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-8943

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