Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1585-1592 , May 2009

Heritability of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

  • Jeffrey B. Schwimmer

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
    • Department of Gastroenterology, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, California 92103. fax: (619) 543-7537
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  • Manuel A. Celedon

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
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  • Joel E. Lavine

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
    • Department of Gastroenterology, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California
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  • Rany Salem

      Affiliations

    • Scripps Genomic Medicine and The Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
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  • Nzali Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Scripps Genomic Medicine and The Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
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  • Nicholas J. Schork

      Affiliations

    • Scripps Genomic Medicine and The Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
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  • Masoud Shiehmorteza

      Affiliations

    • Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
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  • Takeshi Yokoo

      Affiliations

    • Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
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  • Alyssa Chavez

      Affiliations

    • Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
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  • Michael S. Middleton

      Affiliations

    • Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
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  • Claude B. Sirlin

      Affiliations

    • Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California

Received 17 September 2008 ,Accepted 22 January 2009.

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 Conflict of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding This work was funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health including R21 DK71486 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, P60 MD00220 for the San Diego EXPORT Center from the National Center of Minority Health and Health Disparities, and M01 RR000827 from the National Center for Research Resources for the General Clinical Research Center at University of California, San Diego, and grant DK080506 from the UCSD Digestive Diseases Research Development Center, San Diego. Dr Salem and Dr Schork are supported in part by Scripps Genomic Medicine and The Scripps Translational Sciences Institute.

PII: S0016-5085(09)00152-8

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.01.050

Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1585-1592 , May 2009