Open AccessIs possible to detect nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by a new index including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)?
Author(s) -
Ludovico Abenavoli,
Luigi Boccuto
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of translational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-5847
pISSN - 2305-5839
DOI - 10.21037/atm.2018.09.20
Subject(s) - single nucleotide polymorphism , nonalcoholic fatty liver disease , nonalcoholic steatohepatitis , genetics , biology , medicine , fatty liver , disease , bioinformatics , computational biology , genotype , gene
In the last decades, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become an emerging health problem worldwide, and affects currently from 15% to 40% of the general population (1).
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