About the Authors

Christian M. Lange

Christian.Lange@chuv.ch (CL); Darius.Moradpour@chuv.ch (DM)

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Medizinische Klinik 1, Klinikum der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Stephanie Bibert

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Zoltan Kutalik

Affiliation Division of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philippe Burgisser

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Andreas Cerny

Affiliation Liver Unit, Ospedale Moncucco, Lugano, Switzerland

Jean-Francois Dufour

Affiliation University Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland

Andreas Geier

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Tilman J. Gerlach

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Markus H. Heim

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Raffaele Malinverni

Affiliation Hôpital Neuchâtelois, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Francesco Negro

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Stephan Regenass

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Klaus Badenhoop

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik 1, Klinikum der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Jörg Bojunga

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik 1, Klinikum der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Christoph Sarrazin

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik 1, Klinikum der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik 1, Klinikum der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Tobias Müller

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Berg

Affiliation Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Rheumatologie, Sektion Hepatologie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Pierre-Yves Bochud

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Darius Moradpour

Christian.Lange@chuv.ch (CL); Darius.Moradpour@chuv.ch (DM)

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study Group

Membership of the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CML KB CS SZ PYB DM. Performed the experiments: CML SB ZK PYB. Analyzed the data: CML SB ZK PYB DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CML SB PB AC JFD AG TJG MHH RM FN SR JB TM TB PYB DM. Wrote the paper: CML SB ZK PB AC JFD AG TJG MHH RM FN SR KB JB CS SZ TM TB PYB DM SCCS.