About the Authors

Li-Min Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Min Wu, Mei-Hong Hu

wlm@ustc.edu.cn (LMW); shengzhizhongxin@126.com (YSL)

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Mei-Hong Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Min Wu, Mei-Hong Hu

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xian-Hong Tong

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Hui Han

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

Ni Shen

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Ren-Tao Jin

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Gui-Xiang Zhou

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Guo-Ping He

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Yu-Sheng Liu

wlm@ustc.edu.cn (LMW); shengzhizhongxin@126.com (YSL)

Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMW YSL. Performed the experiments: MHH XHT HH NS RTJ WW. Analyzed the data: LMW MHH XHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMW XHT WW GXZ GPH. Wrote the paper: LMW GXZ.