About the Authors

Rong Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yong-fang Jiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/ Liver Disease Research Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yong-hong Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/ Liver Disease Research Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xu Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

yangxu1023@csu.edu.cn, yangxu@vip.163.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/ Liver Disease Research Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.