About the Authors

Alexander Ney

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Ney, Nuno R. Nené

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alexney@me.com (AN); nuno.nene.10@ucl.ac.uk (NRN); stephen.pereira@ucl.ac.uk (SPP)

Affiliation Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Nuno R. Nené

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Ney, Nuno R. Nené

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alexney@me.com (AN); nuno.nene.10@ucl.ac.uk (NRN); stephen.pereira@ucl.ac.uk (SPP)

Affiliations Department of Women’s Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Eva Sedlak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Women’s Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Pilar Acedo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Oleg Blyuss

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Cancer Prevention, Detection and Early Diagnosis, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Child´s Health, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia

Harry J. Whitwell

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Women’s Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, National Phenome Centre and Imperial Clinical Phenotyping Centre, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, IRDB, Building Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Section of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Eithne Costello

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Women’s Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Norman R. Williams

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Usha Menon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Giuseppe K. Fusai

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HPB & Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Free London, London, United Kingdom

Alexey Zaikin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Women’s Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Cognition and Decision making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, Life Improvement by Future Technologies (LIFT) Center, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia

Stephen P. Pereira

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alexney@me.com (AN); nuno.nene.10@ucl.ac.uk (NRN); stephen.pereira@ucl.ac.uk (SPP)

Affiliation Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: UM reports stock ownership in Abcodia UK between 2011 and 2021; UM has received grants from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the India Alliance, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University College London Hospital, and The Eve Appeal; UM currently has research collaborations with iLOF, RNA Guardian and Micronoma, with funding paid to UCL; UM holds patent number EP10178345.4 for Breast Cancer Diagnostics; AG currently has research collaborations with Micronoma and iLoF, with the research funding awarded to UCL. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.