About the Authors

Xingshun Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingshun Qi, Man Yang, Weirong Ren, Jia Jia

xingshunqi@126.com (QX); guohhan@126.com (HG); fandaim@fmmu.edu.cn (FD)

Affiliations Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, Department of Gastroenterology, No. 463 Hospital of Chinese PLA, Shenyang, China

Man Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingshun Qi, Man Yang, Weirong Ren, Jia Jia

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Weirong Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingshun Qi, Man Yang, Weirong Ren, Jia Jia

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jia Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingshun Qi, Man Yang, Weirong Ren, Jia Jia

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Juan Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No. 463 Hospital of Chinese PLA, Shenyang, China

Guohong Han

xingshunqi@126.com (QX); guohhan@126.com (HG); fandaim@fmmu.edu.cn (FD)

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Daiming Fan

xingshunqi@126.com (QX); guohhan@126.com (HG); fandaim@fmmu.edu.cn (FD)

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQ WR MY JJ JW GH DF. Performed the experiments: XQ WR MY JJ JW. Analyzed the data: XQ WR MY JJ JW GH DF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQ WR MY JJ JW. Wrote the paper: XQ. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: XQ WR MY JJ JW GH DF. Responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: XQ.