About the Authors

Said Assou

Contributed equally to this work with: Said Assou, Imène Boumela

Affiliations CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France, Université MONTPELLIER1, UFR de Médecine, Montpellier, France

Imène Boumela

Contributed equally to this work with: Said Assou, Imène Boumela

Affiliations CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France, Université MONTPELLIER1, UFR de Médecine, Montpellier, France

Delphine Haouzi

Affiliation CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France

Cécile Monzo

Affiliations CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France, Université MONTPELLIER1, UFR de Médecine, Montpellier, France

Hervé Dechaud

Affiliations CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France, Université MONTPELLIER1, UFR de Médecine, Montpellier, France, ART-PGD department, CHU Montpellier, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France

Issac-Jacques Kadoch

Affiliation Département d’Obstétrique Gynécologie, Université de Montréal, Hôpital Saint-Luc du CHUM, Montréal, Canada

Samir Hamamah

s-hamamah@chu-montpellier.fr

Affiliations CHU Montpellier, Institute for Research in Biotherapy, Hôpital Saint-Eloi, INSERM U1040, Montpellier, France, Université MONTPELLIER1, UFR de Médecine, Montpellier, France, ART-PGD department, CHU Montpellier, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: This study was funded by Ferring and Genevrier pharmaceutical companies. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA SH. Performed the experiments: SA IB. Analyzed the data: SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA IB DH CM HD IJK SH. Wrote the paper: SA SH. Final approval: SH.