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In severe alcoholic hepatitis, serum cytokeratin-18 fragments are diagnostic, prognostic and theragnostic biomarkers (2020)
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INTRODUCTION: Up to 40% of patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) die within 6 months of presentation, making prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment essential. We determined the associations between serum keratin-18 (K18) and histologi... Read More about In severe alcoholic hepatitis, serum cytokeratin-18 fragments are diagnostic, prognostic and theragnostic biomarkers.

Genetic variation in HSD17B13 reduces the risk of developing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in alcohol misusers (2020)
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Background & Aims: Carriage of rs738409:G in patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing 3 (PNPLA3) is associated with an increased risk for developing alcohol-related cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, rs72613567:TA in hydrox... Read More about Genetic variation in HSD17B13 reduces the risk of developing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in alcohol misusers.

Accurate non-invasive diagnosis and staging of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease using the urinary steroid metabolome (2020)
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Background: The development of accurate, non-invasive markers to diagnose and stage non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is critical to reduce the need for an invasive liver biopsy and to identify patients who are at the highest risk of hepatic... Read More about Accurate non-invasive diagnosis and staging of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease using the urinary steroid metabolome.

The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Dietary record tools such as food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and food diaries (FD) are the most commonly used choices for assessing dietary intakes in most large-scale epidemiological studi... Read More about The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India.

Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (2019)
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There is increasing evidence for the role of gut microbial composition in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most serious form of NAFLD where inflammation causes liver damage tha... Read More about Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Cohort profile: The Trivandrum Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Cohort (2019)
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Purpose The Trivandrum NAFLD cohort is a population-based study designed to examine the interaction between genetic and lifestyle factors and their association with increased risk of NAFLD within the Indian population. Participants Between 201... Read More about Cohort profile: The Trivandrum Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Cohort.

Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Flucloxacillin: Relevance of Multiple Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics © 2019 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Some patients prescribed flucloxacillin (~0.01%) develop drug-induced liver injury (DILI). HLA-B*57:01 is an established gene... Read More about Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Flucloxacillin: Relevance of Multiple Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles.

ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO-C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis (2018)
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Given the high global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the need for relevant noninvasive biomarkers and algorithms to accurately stage disease severity is a critical unmet medical need. Identifying those with advanced fibrosis... Read More about ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO-C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis.

Pharmacogenomics of drug-induced liver injury (DILI): molecular biology to clinical applications (2018)
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A number of drug-specific and host-related factors contribute to the development of drug-induced liver injury (DILI). Investigations focused on genetic susceptibility to DILI have advanced our understanding of the pathogenesis of this rare, yet poten... Read More about Pharmacogenomics of drug-induced liver injury (DILI): molecular biology to clinical applications.

Analysis of genotyping for predicting liver injury marker, Procollagen III in persons at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2018)
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Background & Aims Chronic liver disease presents a major global public health challenge. Stratification of asymptomatic, at-risk patients in primary care using non-invasive methods has the potential to address this by identifying those likely to pr... Read More about Analysis of genotyping for predicting liver injury marker, Procollagen III in persons at risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

A role for the tfs3 ICE-encoded type IV secretion system in pro-inflammatory signalling by the Helicobacter pylori Ser/Thr kinase, CtkA (2017)
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Two distinct type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) can be identified in certain Helicobacter pylori strains, encoded on mobile genetic elements termed tfs3 and tfs4. Although their function remains unknown, both have been implicated in clinical outcomes... Read More about A role for the tfs3 ICE-encoded type IV secretion system in pro-inflammatory signalling by the Helicobacter pylori Ser/Thr kinase, CtkA.

Association of liver injury from specific drugs, or groups of drugs, with polymorphisms in HLA and other genes in a genome-wide association study (2016)
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Background & aims: We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify genetic risk factors for drug-induced liver injury (DILI) from licensed drugs without previously reported genetic risk factors. Methods: We performed a GWAS of 862 pe... Read More about Association of liver injury from specific drugs, or groups of drugs, with polymorphisms in HLA and other genes in a genome-wide association study.

Monozygotic twins with NASH cirrhosis: cumulative effect of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms? (2016)
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Multiple genetic and environmental factors interact to determine an individual?s predisposition to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its phenotypic characteristics. Association studies have found a number of alleles associated with the developmen... Read More about Monozygotic twins with NASH cirrhosis: cumulative effect of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms?.

Genome-Wide Association Studies in Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Step Change in Understanding the Pathogenesis (2015)
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Human leukocyte antigen genetic risk factors of drug-induced liver toxicology (2014)
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Introduction: Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a rare adverse drug reaction, which impacts significantly on patients. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) risk alleles have been found to be associated with DILI supporting an immunological basis to DILI p... Read More about Human leukocyte antigen genetic risk factors of drug-induced liver toxicology.

Cellular location and activity of Escherichia coli RecG proteins shed light on the function of its structurally unresolved C-terminus (2014)
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RecG is a DNA translocase encoded by most species of bacteria. The Escherichia coli protein targets branched DNA substrates and drives the unwinding and rewinding of DNA strands. Its ability to remodel replication forks and to genetically interact wi... Read More about Cellular location and activity of Escherichia coli RecG proteins shed light on the function of its structurally unresolved C-terminus.

Site-specific relaxase activity of a VirD2-like protein encoded within the tfs4 genomic island of Helicobacter pylori (2013)
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Four different type IV secretion systems are variously represented in the genomes of different Helicobacter pylori strains. Two of these, encoded by tfs3 and tfs4 gene clusters are contained within self-transmissible genomic islands. Although chromos... Read More about Site-specific relaxase activity of a VirD2-like protein encoded within the tfs4 genomic island of Helicobacter pylori.