About the Authors

L. Kaps

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Institute of Translational Immunology, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

C. J. Ahlbrand

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

R. Gadban

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

M. Nagel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

C. Labenz

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

P. Klimpke

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

S. Holtz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

S. Boedecker

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

M. Michel

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

W. M. Kremer

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

M. Hilscher

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM), University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

P. R. Galle

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

D. Kraus

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

J. M. Schattenberg

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, IMetabolic Liver Research Program; I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

J. Weinmann-Menke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

julia.weinmann-menke@unimedizin-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.