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Affiliations

• ¹ Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ² Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ³ Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁵ Washington University School of Medicine and John Cochran VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• ⁶ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Keck Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• ⁸ Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
• ¹⁰ Meredith Mosle Chair in Liver Disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• ¹¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹² Head of Infectious Disease Research, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA.
• ¹³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.