About the Authors

Mario Chojkier

mchojkier@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States, Biomedical Sciences Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Clinical Translational Research Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hisham Elkhayat

Affiliations Hepatology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt, Hepatology Clinic, Agouza Hospital, Ministry of Health, Giza, Egypt

Dina Sabry

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Michael Donohue

Affiliations Clinical Translational Research Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Family and Preventive, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Martina Buck

Affiliations Department of Medicine, San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States, Biomedical Sciences Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC MB. Performed the experiments: HE DS. Analyzed the data: MC MB MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HE MC MB MD. Wrote the paper: MC MB.