About the Authors

Suming Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Suming Xu, Xu Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Xu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Suming Xu, Xu Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Yaoqin Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Susan Lutgendorf

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Catherine Bradley

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Andrew Schrepf

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Karl Kreder

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Michael O'Donnell

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Yi Luo

yi-luo@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MO YL. Data curation: SX YW YL. Formal analysis: SX XW YW SL CB AS MO YL. Funding acquisition: KK YL. Investigation: SX XW YW YL. Methodology: SX XW YW MO YL. Project administration: KK YL. Resources: KK MO YL. Supervision: KK MO YL. Validation: SX XW YW YL. Visualization: SX YW YL. Writing – original draft: SX YW MO YL. Writing – review & editing: SL CB AS KK MO YL.