About the Authors

Carolin Czauderna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Mayrel Palestino-Dominguez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Iztapalapa, Mexico

Darko Castven

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Diana Becker

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Luis Zanon-Rodriguez

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Jovana Hajduk

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Friederike L. Mahn

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Monika Herr

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Dennis Strand

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Susanne Strand

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Genomics of Institute of Human Genetics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Luis E. Gomez-Quiroz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Iztapalapa, Mexico

Marcus A. Wörns

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Peter R. Galle

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Jens U. Marquardt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

marquarj@uni.mainz.de

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Lichtenberg Research Group “Molecular Hepatocarcinogenesis”, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

This project was financially supported by Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmBH. The funder, Dr. Wilmar Schwabe GmBH, provided support in the form of salaries for authors [MH], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.