About the Authors

Yijun Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Wu, Qi Li, Steven Dooley, Honglei Weng

wu1jun@sina.com (YW); honglei.weng@medma.uni-heidelberg.de (HW)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Qi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Wu, Qi Li, Steven Dooley, Honglei Weng

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Xinhui Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Jiren Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Yunchuan Mu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Stefan Munker

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Chengfu Xu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Zhe Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Roman Müllenbach

Affiliations Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Hospital, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

Yan Liu

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Li Li

Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Norbert Gretz

Affiliation Medical Research Center, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Derek Zieker

Affiliation General, Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Jun Li

Affiliation General, Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Kouichi Matsuzaki

Affiliation Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Youming Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Steven Dooley

Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Wu, Qi Li, Steven Dooley, Honglei Weng

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Honglei Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Wu, Qi Li, Steven Dooley, Honglei Weng

wu1jun@sina.com (YW); honglei.weng@medma.uni-heidelberg.de (HW)

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology - Alcohol Associated Diseases, II, Medical Clinic Faculty of Medicine at Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW QL XZ SD HW. Performed the experiments: YW QL XZ Y. Liu HW SM CX ZS. Analyzed the data: YW QL XZ Y. Li HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW JY YM LL NG DZ JL KM Y. Li SD HW. Wrote the paper: HW YW. Edited manuscript: RM.