Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 4 , Page 1536 , October 2009

Heritability of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

  • Martijn C.G.J. Brouwers

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Vascular Metabolism and Biology, Department of Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Marleen M.J. van Greevenbroek

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Vascular Metabolism and Biology, Department of Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Rita M. Cantor

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

References 

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  2. Brouwers MC, Cantor RM, Kono N, et al. Heritability and genetic loci of fatty liver in familial combined hyperlipidemia. J Lipid Res. 2006;47:2799–2807
  3. Mar-Heyming R, Miyazaki M, Weisglas-Volkov D, et al. Association of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 activity with familial combined hyperlipidemia. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008;28:1193–1199
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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant HL-28481.

PII: S0016-5085(09)01397-3

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.03.065

Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 4 , Page 1536 , October 2009

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