About the Authors

Bijun Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bijun Zhao, Yuan Lin

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yuan Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Bijun Zhao, Yuan Lin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jing Xu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bixian Ni

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Da

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chenyue Ding

Affiliation Center of Clinical Reproductive Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yuanli Hu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Kai Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shiwei Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaowei Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shiqiang Yu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yijiang Chen

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xuming Mo

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jiayin Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Center of Clinical Reproductive Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jiahao Sha

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongxia Ma

hongxiama@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM JS HS JL. Performed the experiments: YL BN MD CD YH KZ. Analyzed the data: BZ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX YC XM S. Yang XW. Wrote the paper: BZ YL. Oversaw the study design: S. Yu JS HS JL. Contributed to interpretation of results: S. Yu JS HS JL.