About the Authors

Meng Rao

Contributed equally to this work with: Meng Rao, Lian-Dong Zuo

Affiliation Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lian-Dong Zuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Meng Rao, Lian-Dong Zuo

Affiliation Guangzhou Institute of Population and Family Planning, Guangzhou, China

Fang Fang

Affiliation Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Kuete Martin

Affiliation Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yi Zheng

Affiliation Department of Venereology, Wuhan Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Wuhan, China

Hui-Ping Zhang

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Hong-Gang Li

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chang-Hong Zhu

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Cheng-Liang Xiong

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Huang-Tao Guan

guanhtao@163.com

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HTG CLX CHZ. Performed the experiments: MR LDZ FF HPZ HGL. Analyzed the data: YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LDZ HPZ HGL. Wrote the paper: MR. Revised the manuscript: FF KM.