Journal:
:hepatitis monthly
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sharareh kamfar department of molecular medicine and genetics, school of medicine, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, ir iran; research center for molecular medicine, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, ir iran
seyed moayed alavian baqiyatallah research center for gastroenterology and liver diseases (brcgl), baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; middle east liver diseases (meld) center, tehran, ir iran
massoud houshmand department of medical genetics, national institute for genetic engineering and biotechnology, tehran, ir iran
reza yadegarazari shohada hospital of harsin, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, ir iran
bahram seifi zarei school of medicine, shahid beheshti hospital, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, ir iran
alireza khalaj obesity treatment center, department of surgery, shahed university, tehran, ir iran
results the relative expression of mtdna copy number was 3.7 fold higher in nafld patients than healthy controls (p < 0.0001). the results remained significant after adjustment for age, bmi, and gender (p = 0.02). in addition, the mtdna copy number was 4.3 (p < 0.0001) and 3.2-fold (p < 0.0001) higher in nonalcoholic fatty liver (nafl) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) patients than heal...
