In multivariate analyses, the global effect of aetiology on the mean levels of HLA-G during the follow-up was significant (p = 0.04), but exclusively attributable to patients with biliary pathologies, who had a significantly higher mean level of HLA-G (55% higher, p < 0.001) than alcoholic-cirrhosis patients (S1C Fig in S1 File). The gene discussed is HLA-G; the disease is alcoholic liver cirrhosis.