About the Authors

Farideh Mohtasham

Contributed equally to this work with: Farideh Mohtasham, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari

Contributed equally to this work with: Farideh Mohtasham, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health & Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran

Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Center, Hearing Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Kaveh Kavousi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kkavousi@ut.ac.ir

Affiliation Laboratory of Complex Biological Systems and Bioinformatics (CBB), Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Reza Zali

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.