About the Authors

Hui-Hua Chang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Aune Moro

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Kazuki Takakura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Hsin-Yuan Su

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Pancreatic Research Group, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Allen Mo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Center for Molecular Oncology, UCONN Health, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Masako Nakanishi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Molecular Oncology, UCONN Health, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Richard T. Waldron

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Pancreatic Research Group, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Samuel W. French

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America, Southern California Research Center for ALPD and Cirrhosis, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

David W. Dawson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

O. Joe Hines

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Gang Li

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Vay Liang W. Go

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

James Sinnett-Smith

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Stephen J. Pandol

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Pancreatic Research Group, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Aurelia Lugea

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Pancreatic Research Group, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Anna S. Gukovskaya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Michael O. Duff

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, UCONN Health, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Daniel W. Rosenberg

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Molecular Oncology, UCONN Health, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Enrique Rozengurt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Guido Eibl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

GEibl@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.