About the Authors

Reza Soleimani

Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Soleimani, Elke Heytens

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Reproduction, Institute for Fertility Preservation, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Elke Heytens

Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Soleimani, Elke Heytens

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Reproduction, Institute for Fertility Preservation, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Kutluk Oktay

koktay@fertilitypreservation.org

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Reproduction, Institute for Fertility Preservation, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS EH KO. Performed the experiments: RS EH KO. Analyzed the data: RS EH KO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KO. Wrote the paper: RS EH KO.