Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of the study population.

	Ulcerative colitis group	Healthy control group
Number of patients	8	8
Mean age in years (y) (±SD)	45.50 ± 11.58	45.63 ± 11.30
Male sex	50%	50%
Ethnicity
Han	50%	50%
Uygur	50%	50%