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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

RWH Hui was involved in manuscript design and drafting of manuscript. LY Mak was involved in critical revision of manuscript. MF Yuen was involved in critical revision of manuscript and overall study supervision. The authors declare that they have participated in the preparation of the manuscript and have seen and approved the final version.

DISCLOSURES/ CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

MF Yuen is an advisory board member and/or received research funding from AbbVie, Arbutus Biopharma, Assembly Biosciences, Bristol Myer Squibb, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Clear B Therapeutics, Springbank Pharmaceuticals; and received research funding from Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Fujirebio Incorporation and Sysmex Corporation. The remaining authors have no conflict of interests.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data from this study is available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Funding

Innovative Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong (ref. no.: SKLLR/IRF/2018/07) and the S. K. Yee Medical Foundation Grant (ref. no.: 2141213). The funders had no involvement in study design, data collection/ analysis/ interpretation, writing of the manuscript or decision to submit the article for publication.