About the Authors

Mahdi Sheikh

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

Affiliations Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Sahar Masoudi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Razieh Bakhshandeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Moayyedkazemi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Internal Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

Farhad Zamani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sepideh Nikfam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Masoumeh Mansouri

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Neda Ghamarzad Shishavan

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Saman Nikeghbalian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Paul Brennan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Reza Malekzadeh

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

Affiliations Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Akram Pourshams

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

akrampourshams@gmail.com

Affiliations Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.