About the Authors

Thierry Poynard

Contributed equally to this work with: Thierry Poynard, Olivier Deckmyn

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

thierry@poynard.com

Affiliation Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France

Olivier Deckmyn

Contributed equally to this work with: Thierry Poynard, Olivier Deckmyn

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

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Marika Rudler

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Valentina Peta

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

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Yen Ngo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Mathieu Vautier

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Sepideh Akhavan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Virology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Vincent Calvez

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Clemence Franc

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Jean Marie Castille

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Fabienne Drane

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation BioPredictive, Research, Paris, France

Mehdi Sakka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Dominique Bonnefont-Rousselot

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Jean Marc Lacorte

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Endocrinology and Oncology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

David Saadoun

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Yves Allenbach

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Olivier Benveniste

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Frederique Gandjbakhch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Rhumatology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Julien Mayaux

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Olivier Lucidarme

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Bruno Fautrel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Rhumatology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Vlad Ratziu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Hepatology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, Institut of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition ICAN, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, INSERM, Sorbonne University, UMRS 1269 Nutriomique, service de Nutrition, APHP, Paris, France

Chantal Housset

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France

Dominique Thabut

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Patrice Cacoub

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Competing Interests

TP has several USPTO patents related to the performance of Apoa1 in patients with liver disease, including #10,198,552 Method of diagnosis of fibrotic diseases, #7,860,656 Diagnosis method of hepatic steatosis using biochemical markers, 7,856,319, Diagnosis method of alcoholic steato-hepatitis using biochemical markers, #7,225,080 Diagnosis method of inflammatory, fibrotic or cancerous disease using biochemical markers, and # 6,631,330 Diagnosis method of inflammatory, fibrotic or cancerous disease using biochemical markers, and applications pending: #20200011879 Method of diagnosis of drug induced liver injury, 20190265241 Method of diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, #3 20140329260 Method of diagnosis of fibrotic diseases, and #20090111132 Diagnosis method of hepatic steatosis using biochemical markers. The data underlying the findings described in the manuscript are fully detailed including the confounding factors, without restriction, in the numerous supplementary files. The commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.