About the Authors

Hsiao-Ching Nien

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Liver Disease Prevention and Treatment Research Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Jer Hsu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

Tung-Hung Su

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Jen Yang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jin-Chuan Sheu

Affiliations Liver Disease Prevention and Treatment Research Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jin-Town Wang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Lu-Ping Chow

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Genetics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Ling Chen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jia-Horng Kao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Horng Kao, Wei-Shiung Yang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw (WSY); kaojh@ntu.edu.tw (JHK)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Shiung Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Horng Kao, Wei-Shiung Yang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw (WSY); kaojh@ntu.edu.tw (JHK)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HCN PJY JCS JHK WSY. Data curation: HCN CLC JHK WSY. Formal analysis: HCN CLC. Funding acquisition: HCN JCS. Investigation: HCN SJH THS. Methodology: HCN JCS JHK WSY. Project administration: HCN JHK WSY. Resources: HCN SJH THS. Supervision: HCN JHK WSY. Validation: HCN JCS JHK WSY. Visualization: HCN JHK WSY. Writing – original draft: HCN JTW LPC. Writing – review & editing: HCN JCS JHK WSY.