About the Authors

Chung-Wah Wu

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Yu-Juan Dong

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Qiao-Yi Liang

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Xin-Qi He

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Department of Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital at Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China

Simon S. M. Ng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Francis K. L. Chan

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Joseph J. Y. Sung

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Jun Yu

junyu@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWW YJD JY. Performed the experiments: CWW YJD QYL XQH. Analyzed the data: CWW YJD QYL SSMN FKLC JJYS JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWW YJD QYL SSMN FKLC JJYS JY. Wrote the paper: CWW JY.