About the Authors

Lang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lang Yang, Jun-Feng Xu

jianqiu@263.net (JQS); yanglang2009@126.com (LY)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jun-Feng Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lang Yang, Jun-Feng Xu

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China, GraduateCollege, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Qian Kang

Current address: Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Ai-Qin Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Peng Jin

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Xin Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yu-Qi He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Na Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Tao Cheng

Current address: Department of Pathology, PLA army General Hospital, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Pathology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jian-Qiu Sheng

jianqiu@263.net (JQS); yanglang2009@126.com (LY)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, PLA Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LY JQS. Data curation: LY. Formal analysis: LY QK PJ YQH. Funding acquisition: LY. Investigation: LY JFX AQL XW NL. Methodology: LY JFX. Project administration: LY. Resources: AQL XW NL TC. Software: LY JFX. Supervision: JQS. Validation: LY JFX TC. Visualization: JFX. Writing – original draft: LY. Writing – review & editing: JQS.