About the Authors

Elena Navarro-Villarán

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Navarro-Villarán, José Tinoco, Granada Jiménez

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

José Tinoco

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Navarro-Villarán, José Tinoco, Granada Jiménez

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Granada Jiménez

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Navarro-Villarán, José Tinoco, Granada Jiménez

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Sheila Pereira

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Jize Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Sara Aliseda

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

María A. Rodríguez-Hernández

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Raúl González

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Luís M. Marín-Gómez

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Miguel A. Gómez-Bravo

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

Francisco J. Padillo

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

José M. Álamo-Martínez

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

Jordi Muntané

jmuntane-ibis@us.es

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, “Virgen del Rocío”-“Virgen Macarena” University Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville/IBIS/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LMM-G MAG-B FJP JMA-M JM. Formal analysis: EN-V JW. Funding acquisition: JM. Investigation: EN-V JT GJ SP SA. Methodology: EN-V JT GJ SP SA. Project administration: JM. Resources: SP MAR-H RG. Writing - original draft: EN-V JM. Writing - review & editing: EN-V JM.