About the Authors

Takaaki Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Masashi Hirooka

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Yohei Koizumi

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Takao Watanabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Osamu Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Yoshio Tokumoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Yoshiko Nakamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Koutarou Sunago

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Atsushi Yukimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Masanori Abe

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Yoichi Hiasa

Contributed equally to this work with: Takaaki Tanaka, Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Yoshiko Nakamura, Koutarou Sunago, Atsushi Yukimoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hiasa@m.ehime-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.