Reply to: "The IRGM rs10065172 variant increases the risk for steatosis but not for liver damage progression in Italian obese children"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
² Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Children's Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: yhni@ntu.edu.tw.

Comment

Yu-Cheng Lin et al. J Hepatol. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;67(3):655-656.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2017.04.018. Epub 2017 May 5.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
² Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Children's Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: yhni@ntu.edu.tw.

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Variants in the autophagy-related gene IRGM confer susceptibility to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by modulating lipophagy.
Lin YC, Chang PF, Lin HF, Liu K, Chang MH, Ni YH. Lin YC, et al. J Hepatol. 2016 Dec;65(6):1209-1216. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.06.029. Epub 2016 Jul 12. J Hepatol. 2016. PMID: 27417217
The IRGM rs10065172 variant increases the risk for steatosis but not for liver damage progression in Italian obese children.
Bellini G, Miraglia Del Giudice E, Nobili V, Rossi F. Bellini G, et al. J Hepatol. 2017 Sep;67(3):653-655. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2017.02.037. Epub 2017 May 5. J Hepatol. 2017. PMID: 28483681 No abstract available.