About the Authors

Yaakov Bentov

Bentov@lunenfeld.ca

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Theodore J. Brown

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Mohammad R. Akbari

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Robert Royer

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Harvey Risch

Affiliation Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Barry Rosen

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Gynecologic Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

John McLaughlin

Affiliation Gynecologic Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Ping Sun

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Shiyu Zhang

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Steven A. Narod

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Robert F. Casper

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB TB BR JM SAN RC. Performed the experiments: RR PS SZ. Analyzed the data: YB RR HR JM SAN RC. Wrote the paper: YB TB MRA SAN RC.