About the Authors

Kerri M. Luzzo

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerri M. Luzzo, Qiang Wang

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

Qiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerri M. Luzzo, Qiang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Scott H. Purcell

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

Maggie Chi

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

Patricia T. Jimenez

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

Natalia Grindler

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

Tim Schedl

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

Kelle H. Moley

moleyk@wustl.edu

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

Competing Interests

KHM is on the scientific advisory board of Ovascience. No other authors have competing interest to report. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KML QW TS KHM. Performed the experiments: KML QW SHP MC PTJ NG. Analyzed the data: KML QW SHP MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS QW NG PTJ SHP. Wrote the paper: KML QW TS KHM.