About the Authors

Gulzhanat Aimagambetova

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gulzhanat.aimagambetova@nu.edu.kz

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Alpamys Issanov

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Sanja Terzic

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Gauri Bapayeva

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Clinical Academic Department of Women’s Health, National Research Center of Mother and Child Health, University Medical Center, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Talshyn Ukybassova

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Clinical Academic Department of Women’s Health, National Research Center of Mother and Child Health, University Medical Center, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Saltanat Baikoshkarova

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation IVF Clinic “Ecomed”, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Aidana Aldiyarova

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Clinical Academic Department of Women’s Health, National Research Center of Mother and Child Health, University Medical Center, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Fariza Shauyen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Clinical Academic Department of Women’s Health, National Research Center of Mother and Child Health, University Medical Center, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Milan Terzic

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Clinical Academic Department of Women’s Health, National Research Center of Mother and Child Health, University Medical Center, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SB is a paid employee of Ecomed. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.