About the Authors

Elena Veselkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Veselkin, Maria Kondratyev

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Maria Kondratyev

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Veselkin, Maria Kondratyev

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yoav Lurie

Affiliation Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Efrat Ron

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Moshe Santo

Affiliation Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shimon Reif

Affiliation Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Irma Elashvili

Affiliation Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lana Bar

Affiliation Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Gerardo Z. Lederkremer

gerardo@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

GZL and MK own patents WO2004081029 and US7741065B2, “A novel non-invasive marker for liver disease”. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZL YL. Performed the experiments: EV MK. Analyzed the data: EV MK YL ER IE LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS SR IE LB. Wrote the paper: GZL.