About the Authors

Yiping Fan

yiping@nus.edu.sg (YF); jerrychan@nus.edu.sg (JKYC)

Affiliation Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Yap Seng Chong

Affiliation Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Mahesh A. Choolani

Affiliation Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Mark D. Cregan

Current address: Medela AG, Baar, Switzerland

Affiliation School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia

Jerry K. Y. Chan

yiping@nus.edu.sg (YF); jerrychan@nus.edu.sg (JKYC)

Affiliations Experimental Fetal Medicine Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Reproductive Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YF MC MDC JKYC. Performed the experiments: YF. Analyzed the data: YF YSC MC MDC JKYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YF YSC MC MDC JKYC. Wrote the paper: YF YSC MC MDC JKYC.