About the Authors

Ali Bayoumi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Bayoumi, Ismail Jalil

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

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Ismail Jalil

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Bayoumi, Ismail Jalil

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

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Mayada Metwally

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

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Leon A. Adams

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical School, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia

Rocio Aller

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology Svo., Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, School of Medicine, Valladolid University, Valladolid, Spain

Carmelo García-Monzón

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver Research Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Princesa, University Hospital Santa Cristina, CIBERehd, Madrid, Spain

María Teresa Arias-Loste

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Spain

Luca Miele

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Salvatore Petta

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, PROMISE, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Antonio Craxì

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, PROMISE, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Rocio Gallego-Durán

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

Janett Fischer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Berg

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Liang Qiao

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Christopher Liddle

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Elisabetta Bugianesi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medical Science, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Manuel Romero-Gomez

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

Jacob George

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

jacob.george@sydney.edu.au (JG); mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au (ME)

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Mohammed Eslam

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jacob.george@sydney.edu.au (JG); mohammed.eslam@sydney.edu.au (ME)

Affiliation Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.