Fungal signature differentiates alcohol-associated liver disease from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

"Disclosure statement B.S. has been consulting for Ferring Research Institute, HOST Therabiomics, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Mabwell Therapeutics, Patara Pharmaceuticals, Surrozen and Takeda. B.S.’s institution UC San Diego has received research support from Axial Biotherapeutics, BiomX, ChromoLogic, CymaBay Therapeutics, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Prodigy Biotech and Synlogic Operating Company. B.S. is founder of Nterica Bio. UC San Diego has filed several patents with S.L. and B.S. as inventors related to this work."

"This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant K12 HD85036, University of California San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI)/NIH grant KL2TR001444, and Pinnacle Research Award in Liver Diseases Grant #PNC22-159963 from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Foundation, and Pilot/Feasibility Grant P30 DK120515 from the San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center (SDDRC) (to P.H.), by a DFG fellowship (LA 4286/1-1) and the “Clinical and Translational Research Fellowship in Liver Disease” by the AASLD Foundation (to S.L.), by the “Marga und Walter Boll-Stiftung”, project number 210-03-2016, and the “Köln Fortune” research pool, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany, project number 160/2014 (to M.D.), by grants from the Fond National de Recherche Scientifique Belgium (J.0146.17 and T.0217.18) and Action de recherche concertée (ARC), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (to P.S.), in part by NIH grants R01 AA024726, R01 AA020703, U01 AA026939, U01 AA026939-04S1, by Award Number B×004594 from the Biomedical Laboratory Research & Development Service of the VA Office of Research and Development (to B.S.) and services provided by NIH centers P30 DK120515 and P50 AA011999."