About the Authors

Santosh Nanda

Contributed equally to this work with: Santosh Nanda, Michael B. Havert

Affiliations Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, CBER, FDA, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael B. Havert

Contributed equally to this work with: Santosh Nanda, Michael B. Havert

Affiliations Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, CBER, FDA, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gloria M. Calderón

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

Michael Thomson

Affiliations Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Virology Department, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Christian Jacobson

Affiliations Genetics and Genomics Branch, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Biology and Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Daniel Kastner

Affiliation Genetics and Genomics Branch, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

T. Jake Liang

JakeL@intra.niddk.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.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKN MBH TJL. Performed the experiments: SKN MBH GMC. Analyzed the data: SKN MBH TJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT CJJ DK. Wrote the paper: SKN. As a team leader, managed the group to be on task: TJL.