About the Authors

Yuting Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Huang, Robert L. Kruse

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

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert L. Kruse

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Huang, Robert L. Kruse

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hui Ding

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Mohamad I. Itani

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Morrison

Roles Methodology

Affiliation R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zack Z. Wang

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Florin M. Selaru

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

vkumbhari@gmail.com (VK); fselaru1@jhmi.edu (FMS)

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vivek Kumbhari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

vkumbhari@gmail.com (VK); fselaru1@jhmi.edu (FMS)

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

Conflict of Interest: R.L.K, Y.H., V.K., and F.M.S. have a patent application filed on the work. All other authors do not have conflict of interests. There are no other licensing or consulting interests; this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.