About the Authors

Ping Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tingting Hu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zheng Zheng

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

Affiliation Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Robert E. Garfield

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Jinying Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

yangjinying1981@126.com

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Longgang District Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital of Shenzhen City (Longgang Maternity and Child Institute of Shantou University Medical College), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.