About the Authors

Aurelien Amiot

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurelien Amiot, Hicham Mansour

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, APHP, Henri-Mondor hospital, Créteil, France, University of Paris Est Creteil, Créteil, France, Laboratoire d'Investigation Clinique EA 4393 EC2M3, Créteil, France

Hicham Mansour

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurelien Amiot, Hicham Mansour

Affiliations Laboratoire d'Investigation Clinique EA 4393 EC2M3, Créteil, France, Bioscience Core Laboratories, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Isabelle Baumgaertner

Affiliation Department of Oncology, APHP, Henri-Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France

Jean-Charles Delchier

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, APHP, Henri-Mondor hospital, Créteil, France, University of Paris Est Creteil, Créteil, France

Christophe Tournigand

Affiliations University of Paris Est Creteil, Créteil, France, Department of Oncology, APHP, Henri-Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France

Jean-Pierre Furet

Affiliation Commensals and Probiotics-Host Interactions Laboratory, INRA, MICALIS Institute, Jouy en Josas, France

Jean-Pierre Carrau

Affiliation Laboratoire d'analyse, CPAM, Paris, France

Florence Canoui-Poitrine

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations University of Paris Est Creteil, Créteil, France, Laboratoire d'Investigation Clinique EA 4393 EC2M3, Créteil, France, Department of Public Health, APHP, Henri-Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France

Iradj Sobhani

iradj.sobhani@hmn.aphp.fr

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, APHP, Henri-Mondor hospital, Créteil, France, University of Paris Est Creteil, Créteil, France, Laboratoire d'Investigation Clinique EA 4393 EC2M3, Créteil, France

for the CRC group of Val De Marne

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Competing interests exist for I. Sobhani and the Wif1 test marker (Registered Patent), and for JP Carrau for the FOB test (head of laboratory).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS FCP JPF. Performed the experiments: AA HM JPF JPC. Analyzed the data: AA HM IB JCD CT JPF JPC FCP IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA HM JPF JPC FCP IS. Wrote the paper: AA HM IS FCP.