About the Authors

Chanavee Toh

Contributed equally to this work with: Chanavee Toh, Kedsiree Sanit

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

Affiliation Division of Digital Innovation and Data Analytics, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Kedsiree Sanit

Contributed equally to this work with: Chanavee Toh, Kedsiree Sanit

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Pimsiri Sripongpun

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Naichaya Chamroonkul

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Suthat Liangpunsakul

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Roudebush Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Teerha Piratvisuth

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NKC Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Apichat Kaewdech

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

apichat.ka@psu.ac.th

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Competing Interests

Apichat Kaewdech received research grants or support from Roche, Roche Diagnostics, and Abbott Laboratories, and honoraria from Roche, Roche Diagnostics, Abbott Laboratories, and Esai. Suthat Liangpunsakul discloses consulting roles with Durect Corporation and Surrozen. However, these roles do not present any conflict of interest concerning the content of this work. Teerha Piratvisuth received research grants from Gilead Sciences, Roche Diagnostics, Janssen, Fibrogen, and VIR and honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Bayer, Abbott, Esai, Mylan, Ferring, and MSD. The other authors have no relevant conflict of interest to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.