About the Authors

Yuxia Yang

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Wei Ma

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Histology and Embryology, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Dan Wu

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yu Huang

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Hongge Li

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Junhua Zou

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yanju Zhang

Affiliation Tianjin Central Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin, China

Meifu Feng

meifu41@gmail.com (MFF); JLuo@som.umaryland.edu (JYL)

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianyuan Luo

meifu41@gmail.com (MFF); JLuo@som.umaryland.edu (JYL)

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Department of Medical & Research Technology, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YXY MFF JYL. Performed the experiments: YXY WM DW YH HGL YJZ. Analyzed the data: YXY WM MFF JYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM HGL JHZ YJZ. Wrote the paper: YXY MFF JYL.