Risk stratification for hepatocellular cancer among patients with cirrhosis using a hepatic fat polygenic risk score

• Aaron P. Thrift ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: aaron.thrift@bcm.edu (APT); hasheme@bcm.edu (HBES)

  Affiliations Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0084-5308

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• Fasiha Kanwal,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Yanhong Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Saira Khaderi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Amit G. Singal,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Jorge A. Marrero,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Nicole Loo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Liver Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Sumeet K. Asrani,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Michelle Luster,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Abeer Al-Sarraj,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Jing Ning,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Spiridon Tsavachidis,

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

  Affiliation Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Xiangjun Gu,

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

  Affiliation Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Christopher I. Amos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Hashem B. El-Serag

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aaron.thrift@bcm.edu (APT); hasheme@bcm.edu (HBES)

  Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

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