About the Authors

Suchita Panda

Affiliation Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Ismail El khader

Affiliation Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Francesc Casellas

Affiliations Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Josefa López Vivancos

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Capio Hospital General de Catalunya, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Montserrat García Cors

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Capio Hospital General de Catalunya, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Alba Santiago

Affiliation Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Silvia Cuenca

Affiliation Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Guarner

Affiliations Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Chaysavanh Manichanh

cmanicha@gmail.com

Affiliations Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG FC CM. Performed the experiments: JLV MGC SP SC AS CM. Analyzed the data: SP IEK CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG CM. Wrote the paper: CM.