Financial & competing interests disclosure
This study was supported by the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Agency/Kunming Medical University Joint Project #2019FE001 (-087). This study was also supported by the Special health research projects of 2019 funded by the Chinese PLA general hospital, under the project ‘Screening of early-stage CRC and adenoma by combined methylated SEPT9 and FIT assays in military aging population’ (NLBJ-2019003). This study was also supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0908401) and the National Science and Technology Major Project (2018ZX10723204 and 2018ZX10302205). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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