Retraction Note to: Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2021) 66:1054–1062 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-020-06308-0

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the request of the corresponding author XiuCheng Yang. After publication, the authors re-analysed their data, and have detected inconsistencies which render the results and conclusions presented as unreliable.

Yan Yang, Qiong Yu, Bing Li, Renzhen Guan and ChangYong Huang have not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction.