About the Authors

Kazumasa Muta

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Ravinder K. Mittal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Ali Zifan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

azifan@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr Zifan and Dr Mittal have copyright protection for the computer software (Dplots). However, this does not alter in any way our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.