1Infertility and IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chaim
Sheba Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Hashomer
52561, Israel
2Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Jerusalem,
Israel
3Biology Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA
4Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Biology, Brigham &
Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
5Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
6Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
✉Correspondence address. E-mail:
Ronit.Machtinger@sheba.health.gov.il
†Abdallah Mansur and Ariel Israel contributed equally to this work.
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