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- August 14, 2020.
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- Na Jiao1,2,$,
- Rohit Loomba3,$,*,
- Zi-Huan Yang1,
- Dingfeng Wu2,
- Sa Fang2,
- Richele Bettencourt3,
- Ping Lan1,
- Ruixin Zhu2,* and
- Lixin Zhu1,4,*
- 1Guangdong Institute of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510655, P.R. China
- 2Putuo people’s Hospital, Department of Bioinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P.R.China
- 3NAFLD Research Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- 4Department of Biochemistry, Genome, Environment and Microbiome Community of Excellence, The State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 14214, United States
- ↵*Corresponding authors: Rohit Loomba (roloomba{at}ucsd.edu), NAFLD Research Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Epidemiology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0887, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States., Tel: 1-858-246-2201, Ruixin Zhu (rxzhu{at}tongji.edu.cn), Putuo people’s Hospital, Department of Bioinformatics, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P.R. China., Tel: 86-21-6598-1041, Lixin Zhu (zhulx6{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn), Guangdong Institute of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Sixth, Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510655, P.R. China., Tel: 86-199-46256235
↵$ Equal contribution
Author’s contributions: LZ, RL and RZ conceived and designed the project. Each author has contributed significantly to the submitted work. NJ and RL drafted the manuscript. ZY, DW, SF, RB, PL, RZ and LZ revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.