About the Authors

Swaytha Ganesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Swaytha Ganesh, Shari S. Rogal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shari S. Rogal

Contributed equally to this work with: Swaytha Ganesh, Shari S. Rogal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dhiraj Yadav

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Abhinav Humar

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jaideep Behari

beharij@upmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG SR DY JB. Performed the experiments: SG SR DY JB. Analyzed the data: SG SR DY AH JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG SR DY JB. Wrote the paper: SG SR DY AH JB.