About the Authors

Changlong Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

‡ CY, ZC, YD, JM and QZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Department of Gastric and Intestinal Surgery, Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Zhenglin Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

‡ CY, ZC, YD, JM and QZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou International Bio Island, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Youguo Dai

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

‡ CY, ZC, YD, JM and QZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Department of Gastric and Intestinal Surgery, Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Jinzhao Mo

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ CY, ZC, YD, JM and QZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Qitai Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ CY, ZC, YD, JM and QZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, Guangzhou, China

Mingming Zhu

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastric and Intestinal Surgery, Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Likun Luan

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastric and Intestinal Surgery, Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Jinhu Zhang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

cmilyforyou@qq.com (JZ); sunbaoqing@vip.163.com (BS); 364929601@qq.com (JJ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suizhou Central Hospital, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Suizhou, Hubei, China

Baoqing Sun

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cmilyforyou@qq.com (JZ); sunbaoqing@vip.163.com (BS); 364929601@qq.com (JJ)

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Center for Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou International Bio Island, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Junyi Jia

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cmilyforyou@qq.com (JZ); sunbaoqing@vip.163.com (BS); 364929601@qq.com (JJ)

Affiliation Department of Gastric and Intestinal Surgery, Yunnan Tumor Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.