About the Authors

Stella M. Martinez

Affiliation Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS and CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain

Juliette Foucher

Affiliation Centre d’Investigation de la Fibrose hépatique, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, CHU Bordeaux, Pessac, France

Jean-Marc Combis

Affiliation Clinique Ambroise Paré, Toulouse, France

Sophie Métivier

Affiliation Service d’hépato-gastro-entérologie, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France

Maurizia Brunetto

Affiliation Hepatology Unit, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Dominique Capron

Affiliation Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France

Marc Bourlière

Affiliation Service d’hépato-gastroentérologie, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Marseille, France

Jean-Pierre Bronowicki

Affiliation Service d’hépatogastroentérologie, INSERM 954, CHU de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

Thong Dao

Affiliation Service d’Hépatogastroentérologie et de Nutrition, CHU Côte de Nacre, Caen, France

Marianne Maynard-Muet

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Lyon, France

Damien Lucidarme

Affiliation Service de Pathologie Digestive, Université Nord de France, Groupe Hospitalier de l’Institut Catholique Lillois/Faculté Libre de Médecine Lille, Lille, France

Wassil Merrouche

Affiliation Centre d’Investigation de la Fibrose hépatique, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, CHU Bordeaux, Pessac, France

Xavier Forns

Affiliation Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS and CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain

Victor de Lédinghen

victor.deledinghen@chu-bordeaux.fr

Affiliation Centre d’Investigation de la Fibrose hépatique, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, CHU Bordeaux, Pessac, France

Competing Interests

Victor de Lédinghen receives consulting fees from Merck, Roche, Gilead, Janssen, Echosens and Bayer. Xavier Forns receives unrestricted grant support from Roche and MSD. Juliette Foucher is on the advisory board for Janssen. Thông Dao is a board member for Schering Plough and receives consulting fees from Roche and Gilead. Jean Marc Combis is employed by Clinique Ambroise Paré. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VDL. Performed the experiments: SMM JF JMC SM M. Brunetto DC M. Bourlière JPB TD MMM DL WM XF VDL. Analyzed the data: SMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMM JF JMC SM M. Brunetto DC M. Bourlière JPB TD MMM DL WM XF VDL. Wrote the paper: SMM VDL.