About the Authors

Fan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Wang, Weiqi Dai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Weiqi Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Wang, Weiqi Dai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Yugang Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tongren Hospital, Jiaotong University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Miao Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Kan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Ping Cheng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Chengfen Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Jingjing Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Yuanyuan Zheng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Jie Lu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Jing Yang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Rong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Medicine of Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Shanghai, PR China

Huawei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University, Suzhou, PR China

Yingqun Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Ling Xu

guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG) (LX); xuling606@sina.com (LX) (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tongren Hospital, Jiaotong University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Chuanyong Guo

guochuanyong@hotmail.com (CG) (LX); xuling606@sina.com (LX) (CG)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG LX FW. Performed the experiments: FW WD YW MS KC PC Y. Zhang CW J. Li Y. Zheng. Analyzed the data: J. Lu JY RZ HZ Y. Zhou. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FW CG. Wrote the paper: FW WD.