About the Authors

Xueren Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueren Gao, Moli Huang, Limin Liu

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Moli Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueren Gao, Moli Huang, Limin Liu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Limin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueren Gao, Moli Huang, Limin Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Yan He

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Qiang Yu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Hua Zhao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Chunxiao Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jinkun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Zhansheng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jiao Wan

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Xinghong Jiang

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Psychology, Key Laboratory of Pain Research & Therapy, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Yuzhen Gao

yuzhengao@suda.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XG MH LL YG. Performed the experiments: XG MH LL YH. Analyzed the data: ZZ JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QY HZ CZ JZ XJ. Wrote the paper: XG YG.