About the Authors

Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

‡ LW and JX are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Jie Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

‡ LW and JX are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Rui Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Ying Shao

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Peng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Shengtao Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Shutian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Jie Xing, Rui Cheng, Ying Shao, Peng Li, Shengtao Zhu, Shutian Zhang

zhangst0612@126.com (S. Zhang)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW PL S. Zhang. Performed the experiments: LW JX RC YS. Analyzed the data: LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Zhu. Wrote the paper: LW.