About the Authors

Albert Do

Contributed equally to this work with: Albert Do, Yash Mittal

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Yash Mittal

Contributed equally to this work with: Albert Do, Yash Mittal

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

AnnMarie Liapakis

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Liver Transplantation Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Elizabeth Cohen

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Hong Chau

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Claudia Bertuccio

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Dana Sapir

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Jessica Wright

Affiliation Apothecary and Wellness Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Carol Eggers

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Kristine Drozd

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Maria Ciarleglio

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Yanhong Deng

Affiliation Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Joseph K. Lim

joseph.lim@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Yale Liver Center, Section of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Liver Transplantation Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following interests: Joseph K. Lim (consulting: Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Janssen, Merck; research contracts: Abbott, Achillion, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Globeimmune, Hologic, Janssen, Vertex). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL AD YM AL. Performed the experiments: JL AD YM AL HC CB JW EC CE KD. Analyzed the data: JL AD MC YD. Wrote the paper: JL AD YM AL EC HC CB DS JW CE KD MC YD.