About the Authors

Zhaowei Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhaowei Zhu, Xiaohua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaohua Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhaowei Zhu, Xiaohua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhoujun Shen

shenzj6@sina.com (ZS); luy662003@yahoo.com.cn (YL)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Shan Zhong

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xianjin Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yingli Lu

shenzj6@sina.com (ZS); luy662003@yahoo.com.cn (YL)

Affiliation Institute and Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Chen Xu

Affiliations Department of Embryology and Histology, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS YL CX. Performed the experiments: ZZ XZ. Analyzed the data: ZZ XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ SZ. Wrote the paper: ZZ XZ XW.