About the Authors

Man-Yi Sun

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Tianjin Union Medicine Center & Tianjin People’s Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tianjin Union Medicine Center & Tianjin People’s Hospital, Tianjin, China

Song-Li Shi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tianjin Union Medicine Center & Tianjin People’s Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jing-Na Lin

jingna_lin_tianjin@163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Tianjin Union Medicine Center & Tianjin People’s Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MYS JNL. Performed the experiments: MYS LZ SLS JNL. Analyzed the data: MYS LZ SLS JNL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNL. Wrote the paper: MYS.