1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Kyoto Japan
2. Liver Center Saga University Hospital Saga Japan
3. Department of Gastroenterology Ogaki Municipal Hospital Ogaki Japan
4. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Gifu Municipal Hospital Gifu Japan
5. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine Yokohama Japan
6. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Internal Medicine Nippon Medical School Tokyo Japan
7. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Saiseikai Suita Hospital Suita Japan
8. Department of Hepatology Osaka Metropolitan University Osaka Japan
9. Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology Faculty of Medicine Kagawa University Takamatsu Japan
10. Hepatology Division Department of Internal Medicine II Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu Japan
11. Department of Internal Medicine National Defense Medical College Tokorozawa Japan
12. General Internal Medicine 2 General Medical Center Kawasaki Medical School Okayama Japan
13. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Suita Municipal Hospital Osaka Japan
14. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center Ibaraki Japan
15. Department of General Internal Medicine Fukui‐ken Saiseikai Hospital Fukui Japan
16. Department of Advanced Metabolic Hepatology Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Suita Japan
17. Division of Hepatology and Pancreatology Department of Internal Medicine Aichi Medical University Nagakute Japan
18. Diagnostics Business Area Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics K.K. Tokyo Japan
19. Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Clinical Investigation Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Suita Japan
20. Department of Pathology and Microbiology Faculty of Medicine Saga University Saga Japan