About the Authors

Chang Shu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Zitao Liu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lifeng Cui

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Chengguo Wei

Affiliation Department of Medicine Bioinformatics Core, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Shuwen Wang

Affiliation Computer Center of Jilin Province, Changchun, Jilin, China

Jian Jenny Tang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Miao Cui

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Guodong Lian

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China

Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Xiufen Liu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Hongmei Xu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Jing Jiang

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Chang chun, Jilin, China

Peng Lee

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Urology and New York University Cancer Institute, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

David Y. Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Jin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin He, Fei Ye

hejin1204@163.com (JH); fei.ye@mssm.edu (FY)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Fei Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin He, Fei Ye

hejin1204@163.com (JH); fei.ye@mssm.edu (FY)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 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: DZ JH FY CS ZL DZ FY. Performed the experiments: CS LC WL GL XL MC. Analyzed the data: CS FY CW SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL DZ FY. Wrote the paper: CS ZL FY JT DZ. Involved in collecting the clinical data and placenta samples: CS HX JJ LC. Contributed to summarizing the final data: CS FY.