About the Authors

Jessica K. Wickenheisser

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica K. Wickenheisser, Jessica M. Biegler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jessica M. Biegler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica K. Wickenheisser, Jessica M. Biegler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Velen L. Nelson-DeGrave

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richard S. Legro

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jerome F. Strauss III

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jan M. McAllister

jmcallister@psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM VLND JKW. Performed the experiments: JMM VLND JKW JMB. Analyzed the data: JMM VLND JKW JMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFS RSL JMM. Wrote the paper: JMM VLND JKW JMB RSL JFS.