About the Authors

Hans M. Albertsen

Affiliation Juneau Biosciences, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Rakesh Chettier

Affiliation Juneau Biosciences, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Pamela Farrington

Affiliation Juneau Biosciences, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kenneth Ward

kenw@juneaubiosciences.com

Affiliation Juneau Biosciences, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. Hans M. Albertsen, Rakesh Chettier, Pamela Farrington and Kenneth Ward are employed by Juneau Biosciences LLC, the funder of this study. All authors have direct financial interest in Juneau Biosciences. A US provisional patent application has been filed by Juneau Biosciences that include the results and inventions reported in the manuscript. Title: Genetic Markers Associated with Endometriosis and Use Thereof Serial No.: 61/707,730 Filing date: September 28, 2012. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA RC KW. Performed the experiments: HA RC. Analyzed the data: HA RC PF KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW. Wrote the paper: HA RC KW.