About the Authors

Ning Hua

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Hua, Hirokazu Takahashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Hirokazu Takahashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Hua, Hirokazu Takahashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

Grace M. Yee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Yoichiro Kitajima

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan, Clinical Gastroenterology, Eguchi Hospital, Saga, Japan

Sayaka Katagiri

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Motoyasu Kojima

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

Keizo Anzai

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

Yuichiro Eguchi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Saga Medical School, Liver Center, Saga, Japan

James A. Hamilton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jhamilt@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.