About the Authors

Qiao Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Yu, Siying Zhu, Rui Zhou

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Siying Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Yu, Siying Zhu, Rui Zhou

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Rui Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Yu, Siying Zhu, Rui Zhou

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Fengming Yi

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Yuntao Bing

Affiliation The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Sha Huang

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Zixi Wang

Affiliation The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Chunyu Wang

Affiliation The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Bing Xia

bingxia2004@aliyun.com

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, P.R. of China, The Hubei Clinical Center and Key Laboratory of Intestinal and Colorectal Diseases, Wuhan, P.R. of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QY SZ RZ BX. Performed the experiments: QY SZ RZ YB SH ZW CW. Analyzed the data: QY SZ RZ FY YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QY SZ RZ FY YB. Wrote the paper: QY SZ RZ FY YB SH ZW CW.