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. 2010 Jan;42(1):21-3.
doi: 10.1038/ng.488. Epub 2009 Nov 29.

Variant in PNPLA3 is associated with alcoholic liver disease

Chao Tian  1 , Renee P Stokowski, David Kershenobich, Dennis G Ballinger, David A Hinds
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Variant in PNPLA3 is associated with alcoholic liver disease

Chao Tian et al. Nat Genet. 2010 Jan.

Abstract

Two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have described associations of variants in PNPLA3 with nonalcoholic fatty liver and plasma liver enzyme levels. We investigated the contributions of these variants to liver disease in Mestizo subjects with a history of alcohol dependence. We found that rs738409 in PNPLA3 is strongly associated with alcoholic liver disease and clinically evident alcoholic cirrhosis (unadjusted OR= 2.25, P=1.7 x 10(-10); ancestry-adjusted OR=1.79, P=1.9 x 10(-5)).

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