Found in translation—Fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH)

S Wang, SL Friedman - Science translational medicine, 2023 - science.org
Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a severe form of liver disease
that poses a global health threat because of its potential to progress to advanced fibrosis …

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 17 loci associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Y Chen, X Du, A Kuppa, MF Feitosa, LF Bielak… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common and partially heritable and has no
effective treatments. We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta …

Engineered human hepatocyte organoids enable CRISPR-based target discovery and drug screening for steatosis

D Hendriks, JF Brouwers, K Hamer, MH Geurts… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The lack of registered drugs for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is partly due to the
paucity of human-relevant models for target discovery and compound screening. Here we …

Genome-wide association studies of metabolites in Finnish men identify disease-relevant loci

X Yin, LS Chan, D Bose, AU Jackson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Few studies have explored the impact of rare variants (minor allele frequency< 1%) on
highly heritable plasma metabolites identified in metabolomic screens. The Finnish …

Advances in genetic variation in metabolism-related fatty liver disease

F Shi, M Zhao, S Zheng, L Zheng, H Wang - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Metabolism-related fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is the most common form of chronic liver
disease in the world. Its pathogenesis is influenced by both environmental and genetic …

A healthy lifestyle, Life's Essential 8 scores and new-onset severe NAFLD: A prospective analysis in UK Biobank

P He, Y Zhang, Z Ye, H Li, M Liu, C Zhou, S Yang… - Metabolism, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The association of a healthy lifestyle and the American Heart Association (AHA)
Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score with the risk of new-onset nonalcoholic fatty liver disease …

Integrative common and rare variant analyses provide insights into the genetic architecture of liver cirrhosis

J Ghouse, G Sveinbjörnsson, M Vujkovic, AS Seidelin… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
We report a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study on liver cirrhosis and its
associated endophenotypes, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and γ-glutamyl transferase …

PNPLA3 genotype and diabetes identify patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease at high risk of incident cirrhosis

VL Chen, A Oliveri, MJ Miller, K Wijarnpreecha, X Du… - Gastroenterology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to cirrhosis and
hepatic decompensation, but whether genetic variants influence the rate of progression to …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatocyte mARC1 promotes fatty liver disease

LC Lewis, L Chen, LS Hameed, RR Kitchen… - JHEP Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has a prevalence of∼ 25%
worldwide, with significant public health consequences yet few effective treatments. Human …

Dissecting causal relationships between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease proxied by chronically elevated alanine transaminase levels and 34 extrahepatic diseases

Z Liu, C Suo, H Fan, T Zhang, L Jin, X Chen - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is prevalent worldwide and is
associated with the risk of many extrahepatic diseases. However, whether NAFLD is a risk …