Yin, Yaoxue http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2730-3381
Mao, Yundong
Liu, Anthony
Shu, Li
Yuan, Chun
Cui, Yugui
Hou, Zhen
Liu, Jiayin
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1001604, 2017YFC1001300)
National Nature and Science Foundation of China (81730041, 81671438)
State key labortory of reproductive medicine of Nanjing medical university (SKLRM-K201805)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2020
Accepted: 22 November 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: A retrospective cohort study was conducted at the Center of Clinical Reproductive Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of NMU. This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the hospital on 12 October 2012. All infertile women who met the eligibility criteria and agreed to participate in the study provided written informed consent.
: This retrospective study was referred to as clinical data analysis. In total, 5629 women were included for analysis, 635 women with a diagnosis of EMs via laparoscopic surgery, and 4634 women with male factor infertility as control. The above eligible patients who consented to participate were analyzed from January 2013 to October 2017. In addition, we also collected the CCs from 19 women in the EMs group and 24 women in the control group who underwent IVF to test the cumulus expansion–related genes in June 2019.
: No applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.