About the Authors

Shamir Cassim

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

Affiliation Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada

Valérie-Ann Raymond

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada

Pascal Lapierre

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

Affiliations Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marc Bilodeau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

marc.bilodeau@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Laboratoire d’hépatologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The Novartis/Canadian Liver Foundation Hepatology Research Chair at the Université de Montréal is a philanthropic chair administered by Université de Montréal that was initially founded through a joint initiative of the Canadian Liver Foundation and Novartis to help promote research in the field of liver disease. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.