Accepted Manuscript FibroGENE: A gene-based model for staging liver fibrosis Mohammed Eslam, Ahmed M. Hashem, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Thomas Berg, Gregory J. Dore, Alessandra Mangia, Henry Lik Yuen Chan, William L. Irving, David Sheridan, Maria Lorena Abate, Leon A. Adams, Martin Weltman, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Ulrich Spengler, Olfat Shaker, Janett Fischer, Lindsay Mollison, Wendy Cheng, Jacob Nattermann, Stephen Riordan, Luca Miele, Kebitsaone Simon Kelaeng, Javier Ampuero, Golo Ahlenstiel, Duncan McLeod, Elizabeth Powell, Christopher Liddle, Mark W. Douglas, David R. Booth, Jacob George, for the International Liver Disease Genetics Consortium (ILDGC) PII: S0168-8278(15)00740-0 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2015.11.008 Reference: JHEPAT 5890 To appear in: Journal of Hepatology Received Date: 8 July 2015 Revised Date: 2 November 2015 Accepted Date: 9 November 2015 Please cite this article as: Eslam, M., Hashem, A.M., Romero-Gomez, M., Berg, T., Dore, G.J., Mangia, A., Chan, H.L.Y., Irving, W.L., Sheridan, D., Abate, M.L., Adams, L.A., Weltman, M., Bugianesi, E., Spengler, U., Shaker, O., Fischer, J., Mollison, L., Cheng, W., Nattermann, J., Riordan, S., Miele, L., Kelaeng, K.S., Ampuero, J., Ahlenstiel, G., McLeod, D., Powell, E., Liddle, C., Douglas, M.W., Booth, D.R., George, J., for the International Liver Disease Genetics Consortium (ILDGC), FibroGENE: A gene-based model for staging liver fibrosis, Journal of Hepatology (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2015.11.008 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.