About the Authors

Guohong Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Guohong Xiao, Chenglai Xia

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of South China, Hengyang, China, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Chenglai Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Guohong Xiao, Chenglai Xia

Affiliation The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jie Yang

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Jianqiao Liu

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Hongzi Du

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Xiangjin Kang

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yuyi Lin

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Ronghua Guan

Affiliations The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Pengke Yan

Affiliation The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Shengsong Tang

tangss111@163.com

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of South China, Hengyang, China, Center for Life Science, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GX CX ST. Performed the experiments: GX CX JY JL HD XK YL RG PY. Analyzed the data: GX CX YL RG ST. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: GX CX ST.