About the Authors

Qiang Wang

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Antonina I. Frolova

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott Purcell

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Katie Adastra

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Erica Schoeller

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Maggie M. Chi

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tim Schedl

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kelle H. Moley

moleyk@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS KHM. Performed the experiments: QW AIF KA SP ES MMC. Analyzed the data: QW TS KHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHM TS. Wrote the paper: QW KHM TS.