About the Authors

Bin Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhanhui Wang

Affiliation Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jie Yang

Affiliation Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jian Sun

Affiliation Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hua Li

Affiliation Qinghai Provincial Infectious Diseases Hospital, Xining, Qinghai, China

Yasuhito Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kawasumi, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan

Masashi Mizokami

Affiliation The Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kounodai, Ichikawa, Japan

Jinlin Hou

jlhousmu@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW MM JH. Performed the experiments: BZ ZW. Analyzed the data: BZ JY JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL YT. Wrote the paper: BZ YT.