About the Authors

Christine Bernsmeier

c.bernsmeier@unibas.ch

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Diego M. Weisskopf

Affiliation Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marlon O. Pflueger

Affiliation Forensic Psychiatric Clinic, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jan Mosimann

Affiliation Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Benedetta Campana

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Luigi Terracciano

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christoph Beglinger

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Markus H. Heim

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christian Cajochen

Affiliation Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The Basel NAFLD cohort is supported by an Astra-Zeneca research funding. None of the authors has any competing interests related to the funder, i.e. employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Bernsmeier MHH CC. Performed the experiments: C. Bernsmeier DMW MOP JM BC LT C. Beglinger MHH CC. Analyzed the data: C. Bernsmeier DMW MOP JM BC LT C. Beglinger MHH CC. Wrote the paper: C. Bernsmeier CC.