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ReviewMetabolism: clinical and experimental2020

The role of omics in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Nikolaos Perakakis, Konstantinos Stefanakis, Christos S Mantzoros

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Review in Metabolism: clinical and experimental, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05301231 (Omics-based Predictors of NAFLD/Potential NASH), which is not on this map. Cited by 72 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05301231 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Omics-based Predictors of NAFLD/Potential NASH: A New Era Towards Valid and Reliable Non-invasive Diagnosis and Personalized Therapy

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorNational Research Centre, EgyptRan2022 to 2024Enrolled450ConditionsNon-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Non Alcoholic SteatohepatitisArmsGenomics (DNA Extraction), Epi-genomics, Proteomics (Glycoproteomics), Salivary Metabolomics, Individualized counselling for behavioural modification
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nikolaos PerakakisDepartment of Internal Medicine, Boston VA Healthcare system and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.. Electronic address: nperakak@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Konstantinos StefanakisDepartment of Internal Medicine, Boston VA Healthcare system and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Christos S MantzorosDepartment of Internal Medicine, Boston VA Healthcare system and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a multifaceted metabolic disorder, whose spectrum covers clinical, histological and pathophysiological developments ranging from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis, potentially evolving into cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver failure. Liver biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosing NAFLD, while there are no specific treatments. An ever-increasing number of high-throughput Omics investigations on the molecular pathobiology of NAFLD at the cellular, tissue and system levels produce comprehensive biochemical patient snapshots. In the clinical setting, these applications are considerably enhancing our efforts towards obtaining a holistic insight on NAFLD pathophysiology. Omics are also generating non-invasive diagnostic modalities for the distinct stages of NAFLD, that remain though to be validated in multiple, large, heterogenous and independent cohorts, both cross-sectionally as well as prospectively. Finally, they aid in developing novel therapies. By tracing the flow of information from genomics to epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics and glycomics, the chief contributions of these techniques in understanding, diagnosing and treating NAFLD are summarized herein.

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AnimalsGenomicsHumansLiver CirrhosisMetabolomicsNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseProteomicsEpigenomicsGenomicsGlycomicsLipidomicsMetabolomicsNASHSteatosisTranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID32712221
PMCPMC7377759

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