About the Authors

Josep Gregori

josep.gregori@vhir.org

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, Roche Diagnostics SL, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Juan I. Esteban

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

María Cubero

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Damir Garcia-Cehic

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Celia Perales

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM), UAM, Madrid, Spain

Rosario Casillas

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, Biochemistry Unit, HUVH, Barcelona, Spain

Miguel Alvarez-Tejado

Affiliation Roche Diagnostics SL, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

Francisco Rodríguez-Frías

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Biochemistry Unit, HUVH, Barcelona, Spain

Jaume Guardia

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Esteban Domingo

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM), UAM, Madrid, Spain

Josep Quer

Affiliations Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Lab. Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR-HUVH), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Competing Interests

J. Gregori and M. Alvarez-Tejado are employees of Roche Diagnostics Spain. M. Cubero was employer of Roche Diagnostics Spain. All other authors have no conflict of interest to declare. Roche Diagnostics Spain had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report, and does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ J. Gregori JIE FR-F. Performed the experiments: MC DG-C CP RC. Analyzed the data: JQ JIE J. Gregori MA-T FRF ED J. Guardia. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Gregori MA-T. Wrote the manuscript: JQ J. Gregori JIE FR-F ED J. Guardia.