About the Authors

Yuchen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuchen Liu, Yonghua Han

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People's Republic of China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Yonghua Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuchen Liu, Yonghua Han

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Hu Zhang

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People's Republic of China

Liping Nie

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Zhimao Jiang

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Pingping Fa

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Yaoting Gui

caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC); guiyaoting2007@yahoo.com.cn (YG)

Affiliation Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Zhiming Cai

caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC); guiyaoting2007@yahoo.com.cn (YG)

Affiliations Guangdong and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Institute of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH ZC. Performed the experiments: YL YH HZ. Analyzed the data: YL YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LN ZJ PF YG ZC. Wrote the paper: YL YH. Designed the project: YL YH YG ZC. Gave final approval of the version to be published: YL YH YG ZC.