About the Authors

Jianguo Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Department of Proctology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Rongyi Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Yunfei Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Junli Shao

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Jing Xu

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Yan Qi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

qiyankm@163.com

Affiliation Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.