About the Authors

Lizhou Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lizhou Lin, Lili Guo

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Lili Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Lizhou Lin, Lili Guo

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Weixing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Xiaobo Cai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Dafan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Xinjian Wan

wanxj_sh@163.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200080, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL LG XW. Performed the experiments: LL. Analyzed the data: LL WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ. Wrote the paper: LL. Helped to guide the manuscript writing: XC DC.