About the Authors

He Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: He Dong, Wenmiao Liu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Wenmiao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: He Dong, Wenmiao Liu

Affiliation Prenatal diagnosis center, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Meixin Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Ultrasound, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Longqiang Xu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Qiang Li

Affiliation Department of Andrology, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Ru Zhang

Affiliation Prenatal diagnosis center, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Xin Zhang

liushiguo2002@126.com (SL); zxshj@126.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Shiguo Liu

liushiguo2002@126.com (SL); zxshj@126.com (XZ)

Affiliations Prenatal diagnosis center, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, Genetic Laboratory, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL XZ. Performed the experiments: HD WL. Analyzed the data: ML LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL. Wrote the paper: HD WL. Collected samples: RZ.