About the Authors
- Ke Ma
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Ma, Pooja Malhotra
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Pooja Malhotra
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Ma, Pooja Malhotra
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Vinay Soni
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Omar Hedroug
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Fadi Annaba
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Amish Dudeja
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Le Shen
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Jerrold R. Turner
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Ekaterina A. Khramtsova
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Seema Saksena
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Pradeep K. Dudeja
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Affiliations Research and Development, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Ravinder K. Gill
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Waddah A. Alrefai
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* E-mail: walrefai@uic.edu
Affiliations Research and Development, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WAA RKG PKD SS JRT LS. Performed the experiments: KM PM VS OH FA AD EK. Analyzed the data: WAA RKG PKD SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS JRT. Wrote the paper: WA RKG PKD.