About the Authors

Pradeep S. Tanwar

Contributed equally to this work with: Pradeep S. Tanwar, Tomoko Kaneko-Tarui

Affiliations Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Tomoko Kaneko-Tarui

Contributed equally to this work with: Pradeep S. Tanwar, Tomoko Kaneko-Tarui

Affiliation Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

LiHua Zhang

Affiliation Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yoshihiro Tanaka

Affiliation Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher P. Crum

Affiliation Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose M. Teixeira

teixeira@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PST JMT. Performed the experiments: PST TK-T LZ YT. Analyzed the data: PST TK-T CPC JMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPC. Wrote the paper: PST JMT.