About the Authors

Gianpiero D. Palermo

gdpalerm@med.cornell.edu

Queenie V. Neri

Affiliation The Ronald O. Perelman & Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter N. Schlegel

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Zev Rosenwaks

Affiliation The Ronald O. Perelman & Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GDP. Performed the experiments: GDP QVN. Analyzed the data: GDP QVN. Wrote the paper: GDP QVN PNS ZR. Performed ovarian stimulation: ZR. Performed TESE: PNS.