About the Authors

Karl Egan

Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Egan, Darragh Crowley

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Darragh Crowley

Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Egan, Darragh Crowley

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Paul Smyth

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Sharon O'Toole

Affiliations Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cathy Spillane

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cara Martin

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Gallagher

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Aoife Canney

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Lucy Norris

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Niamh Conlon

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Lynda McEvoy

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Brendan Ffrench

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Britta Stordal

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Helen Keegan

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Stephen Finn

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Victoria McEneaney

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Alex Laios

Affiliations Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Jens Ducrée

Affiliation The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Eimear Dunne

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Leila Smith

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation [Europe], Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Berndt

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Orla Sheils

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Dermot Kenny

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

John O'Leary

olearyjj@tcd.ie

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JOL DK OS MB CM . Performed the experiments: KE DC PS CS LS ED VMcE. Analyzed the data: KE DC PS CS MG AC HK CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMcE BF BS NC. Wrote the paper: JOL OS DK SOT MB DC KE CM CS HK MG SF AL JD LN.