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Genome‐Wide Association Study of Lean Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Suggests Human Leukocyte Antigen as a Novel Candidate Locus
19 May 2020
Abstract excerpt
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is supposed to manifest its metabolic phenotype in the liver, but it is common to have lean individuals diagnosed with NAFLD, known as lean NAFLD. We conducted a two‐stage analysis to identify NAFLD‐associated loci in Japanese patients. In stage I, 275 metabolically healthy normal‐weight patients with NAFLD were compared with 1,411 non‐NAFLD controls adjusted for age, sex,...
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