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Donor PNPLA3 rs738409 genotype is a risk factor for graft steatosis. A post-transplant biopsy-based study

Pavel Trunečka1, Irena Míková1, Dana Dlouhá2

  • 1Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.

Digestive and Liver Disease : Official Journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
|February 4, 2018
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Liver biopsyLiver transplantationNAFLDPNPLA3

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