Epigenetics factors in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

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Introduction: Fatty liver disease, defined by the presence of liver fat infiltration, is part of a cluster of disorders that occur in the context of metabolic syndrome. Epigenetic factors – defined as stable and heritable changes in gene expression without changes in the DNA sequence – may not only play an important role in the disease development in adulthood, but they may start exerting their influence in the...

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