Transcriptomic profiling of a multiethnic pediatric NAFLD cohort reveals genes and pathways associated with disease
Kangning Yao, Elena Tarabra, Daniela Sia, Raffaella Morotti, Rima Fawaz, Pamela Valentino, Nicola Santoro, Sonia Caprio, Silvia Liu, Dean Yimlamai – 20 March 2022 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common type of chronic liver disease in children. The mechanisms that drive NAFLD disease progression in this specific patient population remain poorly defined. In this study, we obtained liver biopsy samples from a multiethnic cohort of pediatric patients with NAFLD (n = 52, mean age = 13.6 years) and healthy liver controls (n = 5).