About the Authors

Qi Chen

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Rong Xu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Chunyan Zeng

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Quqin Lu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Dengliang Huang

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Chao Shi

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Weilong Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Libin Deng

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Runwei Yan

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Hai Rao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Guolan Gao

shiwenluo@ncu.edu.cn (SL); guolan_gao@yahoo.com.cn (GG)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Hospital of Beijing Aeronautics, Beijing, China

Shiwen Luo

shiwenluo@ncu.edu.cn (SL); guolan_gao@yahoo.com.cn (GG)

Affiliation Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL GG. Performed the experiments: RX CZ DH CS RY. Analyzed the data: QL WZ LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR. Wrote the paper: SL QC. Interpreted the results: HR.