About the Authors

Liang Zong

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Zong, Yasuyuki Seto

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuyuki Seto

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Zong, Yasuyuki Seto

seto-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ. Wrote the manuscript: LZ SY.