Increased hepatic and circulating chemokine and osteopontin expression occurs early in human NAFLD development

• Michael Kriss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Kriss, Lucy Golden-Mason

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, GI and Liver Innate Immune Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-4858

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• Lucy Golden-Mason ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Kriss, Lucy Golden-Mason

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, USC Research Center for Liver Disease (RCLD), Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2087-4405

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• Jeffrey Kaplan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

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• Faridoddin Mirshahi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• V. Wendy Setiawan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, USC Research Center for Liver Disease (RCLD), Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Arun J. Sanyal,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• Hugo R. Rosen

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hugo.rosen@med.usc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, USC Research Center for Liver Disease (RCLD), Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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