About the Authors

Anyi Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Anyi Dai, Guijun Yan

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Guijun Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Anyi Dai, Guijun Yan

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Qinyuan He

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Yue Jiang

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Qun Zhang

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Ting Fang

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Lijun Ding

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jianxin Sun

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Haixiang Sun

stevensunz@163.com (HS); yali_hu@hotmail.com (YH)

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Yali Hu

stevensunz@163.com (HS); yali_hu@hotmail.com (YH)

Affiliation Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH HS GY. Performed the experiments: AD GY QH YJ. Analyzed the data: AD YJ QZ JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD QH QZ TF LD. Wrote the paper: AD GY JS.