NAMPT gene rs2058539 variant is a risk factor for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Shadi Nouri Mahsa Navari Fatemeh Zarei Mitra Rostami Touraj Mahmoudi Gholamreza Rezamand Asadollah Asadi Hossein Nobakht Reza Dabiri Seidamir Pasha Tabaeian

Published in: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) (2024)

Our findings indicated for the first time that the NAMPT rs2058539 "CC" genotype is a marker of increased nonalcoholic fatty liver disease susceptibility; however, it needs to be supported by further investigations in other populations.

Keyphrases

liver fibrosis
copy number
genome wide
genome wide identification
gene expression
genome wide analysis