About the Authors

Dian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dian Wang, Lian-Bing Li

Affiliations Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China, Forensic Medicine Department, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Lian-Bing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Dian Wang, Lian-Bing Li

Affiliation Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing, China

Zhi-Wei Hou

Affiliation Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing, China

Xiang-Jin Kang

Affiliation Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Qing-Dong Xie

Affiliation Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Xiao-jun Yu

Affiliation Forensic Medicine Department, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Ming-Fu Ma

Affiliation Chongqing Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Reproductive Health, Chongqing, China

Bo-Lu Ma

Affiliation Jiangbei District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, China

Zheng-Song Wang

Affiliation Jiangbei District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, China

Yong Lei

Affiliation Jiangbei District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, China

Tian-Hua Huang

thhuang@stu.edu.cn

Affiliation Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T-HH. Performed the experiments: DW L-BL Z-WH Q-DX X-JK M-FM. Analyzed the data: DW B-LM Z-SW YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW X-JY. Wrote the paper: DW T-HH.