About the Authors

Partha S. Mukherjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Liver Foundation, West Bengal. Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sreenivas Vishnubhatla

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Deepak N. Amarapurkar

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Bombay Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Kausik Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, School of Digestive and liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, India

Ajit Sood

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Yogesh K. Chawla

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh, India

Chundamannil E. Eapen

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Prabhakar Boddu

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osmania General Hospital, Afzalgunj, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Varghese Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Subodh Varshney

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Catholic medical centre hospital, Koirengei, Imphal East, Manipur, India

Pradip Bhaumik

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of medicine, Agartala Govt Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India

Bhaskar Thakur

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Subrat K. Acharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Abhijit Chowdhury

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha S. Mukherjee, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Deepak N. Amarapurkar, Kausik Das, Ajit Sood, Yogesh K. Chawla, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Prabhakar Boddu, Varghese Thomas, Subodh Varshney, Diamond Sharma Hidangmayum, Pradip Bhaumik, Bhaskar Thakur, Subrat K. Acharya, Abhijit Chowdhury

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

abhijitchowdhury1959@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Hepatology, School of Digestive and liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, India, Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences, Sitala (East), Jagadishpur, Sonarpur, 24 Pgs(S), Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

Funding by Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.