About the Authors

Wing-Kit Yip

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Alfred Sze-Lok Cheng

alfredcheng@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ranxu Zhu

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Raymond Wai-Ming Lung

Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Daisy Pui-Fong Tsang

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Suki Shuk-Kei Lau

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yangchao Chen

Current address: School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Jonathan Gabriel Sung

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Paul Bo-San Lai

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Enders Kai-On Ng

Current address: Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Jun Yu

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Nathalie Wong

Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ka-Fai To

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Vincent Wai-Sun Wong

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Henry Lik-Yuen Chan

Affiliations Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS-LC EK-ON VW-SW JJ-YS HL-YC. Performed the experiments: W-KY RZ RW-ML DP-FT SS-KL JGS. Analyzed the data: W-KY AS-LC RW-ML DP-FT HL-YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC PB-SL JY NW K-FT. Wrote the paper: W-KY AS-LC HL-YC.