About the Authors

Hiroaki Haga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hihaga@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Hidenori Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Genome Informatics Unit, Institute for Promotion of Medical Science Research, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan

Ayumi Koseki

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Takafumi Saito

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan, School of Nursing, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Kazuo Okumoto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Kyoko Hoshikawa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Tomohiro Katsumi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Kei Mizuno

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Taketo Nishina

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Yoshiyuki Ueno

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests