About the Authors

Benoit Lacoste

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoit Lacoste, Valérie-Ann Raymond

Affiliation Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada

Valérie-Ann Raymond

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoit Lacoste, Valérie-Ann Raymond

Affiliation Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada

Shamir Cassim

Affiliation Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada

Pascal Lapierre

Affiliations Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marc Bilodeau

marc.bilodeau@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The Novartis/Canadian Liver Foundation Hepatology Research Chair at the Université de Montréal is a philanthropic chair administered by Université de Montréal that was initially founded through a joint initiative of the Canadian Liver Foundation and Novartis to help promote research in the field of liver disease. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BL VAR MB. Formal analysis: BL VAR PL SC. Funding acquisition: MB. Investigation: BL VAR SC. Methodology: BL VAR. Project administration: VAR MB. Resources: MB. Supervision: VAR MB. Validation: BL VAR PL SC MB. Visualization: BL VAR PL SC MB. Writing – original draft: BL VAR. Writing – review & editing: BL VAR PL SC MB.