About the Authors

Tatsuro Nishimura

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

ntatsuro@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Aika Kirihara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Maho Egusa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Natsuko Nishiyama

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Tsuyoshi Fujioka

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Daiki Kawamoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Ryo Sasaki

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Norikazu Tanabe

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Issei Saeki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Toshihiko Matsumoto

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Tsuyoshi Ishikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Taro Takami

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube-Yamaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.