About the Authors

LiJuan Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: LiJuan Yang, JiaQing Shen, ShanShan He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

JiaQing Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: LiJuan Yang, JiaQing Shen, ShanShan He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

ShanShan He

Contributed equally to this work with: LiJuan Yang, JiaQing Shen, ShanShan He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

GuoYong Hu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jie Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ling Xu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

WeiQi Dai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jie Xiong

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

JianBo Ni

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

ChuanYong Guo

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Rong Wan

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

XingPeng Wang

wangxingpeng@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The First People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Gastroenterology, The Tenth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJY GYH XPW. Performed the experiments: LJY JQS SSH GYH JS FW LX WQD JBN JX. Analyzed the data: LJY JQS SSH GYH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XPW CYG RW. Wrote the paper: LJY JQS SSH GYH.