About the Authors

Min Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Zhang, Karim Mouzannar, Zhensheng Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Karim Mouzannar

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Zhang, Karim Mouzannar, Zhensheng Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zhensheng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Zhang, Karim Mouzannar, Zhensheng Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuji Teraoka

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Jason Piotrowski

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuji Ishida

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, PhoenixBio Co., Ltd., Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Chise Tateno-Mukaidani

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, PhoenixBio Co., Ltd., Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Takeshi Saito

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hiromi Abe-Chayama

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Center for Medical Specialist Graduate Education and Research, Hiroshima, Japan

Kazuaki Chayama

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

Current address: Hiroshima Institute of Life Sciences, Hiroshima, and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan

Affiliation Collaborative Research Laboratory of Medical Innovation, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

T. Jake Liang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

jliang@nih.gov

Affiliation Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.