About the Authors

Ni Zeng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ NZ, TO and MA have equal contribution and thus share first authorship

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, Department of Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Toshiyuki Okumura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ NZ, TO and MA have equal contribution and thus share first authorship

Affiliations Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Md Alauddin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ NZ, TO and MA have equal contribution and thus share first authorship

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Shayan Khozooei

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Janet Rajaxavier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Shaqiu Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu City, Sichuan, China

Yogesh Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Bing Shi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, Department of Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Sara Y. Brucker

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Diethelm Wallwiener

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Satoru Takeda

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Florian Lang

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Madhuri S. Salker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

madhuri.salker@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.