About the Authors

Tian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian Zhang, Lingling Guan

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shiyan People’s Hospital of Bao’an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Lingling Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian Zhang, Lingling Guan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Heyuan, Guangdong, China

Xiaomeng Xie

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Heyuan, Guangdong, China

Juecai Chen

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cjc1025@sohu.com (JC); ndj1029@163.com (DN)

Affiliation Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

Dongjing Ni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

cjc1025@sohu.com (JC); ndj1029@163.com (DN)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Fifth Hospital of Jinan University, Heyuan, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.