About the Authors

Qiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Li, Cui-Hua Yu

Affiliation Division of Liver Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Cui-Hua Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Li, Cui-Hua Yu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Jin-Hong Yu

Affiliation Division of Liver Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Li Liu

Affiliation Division of Liver Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Shuang-Shuang Xie

Affiliation Division of Liver Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Wen-Wen Li

Affiliation Unit of Disease Control Genome Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Xia Yang

Affiliation Unit of Hyperbaric Medicine, Shandong Province Hospital, Jinan, China

Wen-Bo Fan

Affiliation Unit of Digestive Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Qihe People's Hospital, Shandong, China

Zhong-Tao Gai

hepatology65@yahoo.com.cn (S-JC); mailto:gaizhongtao@sina.com (Z-TG)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Shi-Jun Chen

hepatology65@yahoo.com.cn (S-JC); mailto:gaizhongtao@sina.com (Z-TG)

Affiliation Division of Liver Disease, Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Naoya Kato

Affiliation Unit of Disease Control Genome Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL Z-TG S-JC. Performed the experiments: QL J-HY LL S-SX XY W-BF C-HY. Analyzed the data: QL Z-TG S-JC NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL C-HY J-HY W-WL. Wrote the paper: QL NK.