About the Authors

Wenxue Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenxue Xiong, Lu Han, Rui Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lu Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenxue Xiong, Lu Han, Rui Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NHC Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Genetics, Guangdong Provincial Reproductive Science Institute (Guangdong Provincial Fertility Hospital), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Rui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenxue Xiong, Lu Han, Rui Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xijia Tang

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chaonan Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaohua Liu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation NHC Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Genetics, Guangdong Provincial Reproductive Science Institute (Guangdong Provincial Fertility Hospital), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jiabao Wu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation NHC Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Genetics, Guangdong Provincial Reproductive Science Institute (Guangdong Provincial Fertility Hospital), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hua Nie

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation NHC Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Genetics, Guangdong Provincial Reproductive Science Institute (Guangdong Provincial Fertility Hospital), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Weibing Qin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

guardqin@163.com (WQ); lingli@mail.sysu.edu.cn (LL)

Affiliation NHC Key Laboratory of Male Reproduction and Genetics, Guangdong Provincial Reproductive Science Institute (Guangdong Provincial Fertility Hospital), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Li Ling

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

guardqin@163.com (WQ); lingli@mail.sysu.edu.cn (LL)

Affiliations Faculty of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Clinical research design division, Clinical research center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.