About the Authors

Li Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhao, Yanli Tang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Yanli Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhao, Yanli Tang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Zhengrui You

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Qixia Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Shuwen Liang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaofeng Han

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Dekai Qiu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Jue Wei

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Lei Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Xiaoyu Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Yanshen Peng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Zhiping Li

zhipingli@jhmi.edu (ZL); maxiongmd@hotmail.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiong Ma

zhipingli@jhmi.edu (ZL); maxiongmd@hotmail.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL XM. Performed the experiments: LZ YT ZY QW SL XH JW YL LS XC YP. Analyzed the data: LZ DQ. Wrote the paper: XM.