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Characteristics of non‐obese non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: Effect of genetic and environmental factors
14 Jan 2016
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AIM: There are a considerable number of patients with non-obese non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, the clinical characteristics of non-obese NAFLD is not fully understood. We investigated genetic and other clinical parameters in non-obese and obese NAFLD. METHODS: The single nucleotide polymorphism rs738409 in the patatin-like phospholipase 3 gene (PNPLA3) was genotyped by the Invader assay in...
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