About the Authors

Zhi Yan

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yimin Xiong

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Weitian Xu

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Juan Gao

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yi Cheng

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhigang Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fang Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Guorong Zheng

guorongzheng@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY GZ YX. Performed the experiments: ZY WX JG YC ZW. Analyzed the data: GZ YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC. Wrote the paper: ZY.