About the Authors

Fung-Yu Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fung-Yu Huang, Danny Ka-Ho Wong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Danny Ka-Ho Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fung-Yu Huang, Danny Ka-Ho Wong

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Wai-Kay Seto

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

An-Ye Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Cheuk-Kwong Lee

Affiliation Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, China

Che-Kit Lin

Affiliation Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, China

James Fung

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Ching-Lung Lai

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Man-Fung Yuen

mfyuen@hku.hk

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FYH DKHW JF CLL MFY. Performed the experiments: FYH WKS. Analyzed the data: FYH AYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C.K. Lee MFY, C.K. Lin. Wrote the paper: FYH DKHW. Recruitment of study subjects: CLL MFY.