About the Authors

Teppei Yoshioka

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tomohide Tatsumi

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takuya Miyagi

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kaori Mukai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kumiko Nishio

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Akira Nishio

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yoshinobu Yokoyama

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takahiro Suda

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tadashi Kegasawa

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Minoru Shigekawa

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hayato Hikita

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ryotaro Sakamori

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuo Takehara

takehara@gh.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: T. Tatsumi TM. Data curation: TY KM. Formal analysis: TY KM. Funding acquisition: T. Takehara. Investigation: YY TS TK. Methodology: KM AN KN. Project administration: T. Tatsumi TM. Resources: RS MS HH. Supervision: T. Takehara. Validation: TY T. Tatsumi. Visualization: TY T. Tatsumi. Writing – original draft: TY T. Tatsumi. Writing – review & editing: TY T. Tatsumi TM KM KN AN YY TS TK MS HH RS T. Takehara.