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ArticleNature communications2024

Development of a novel non-invasive biomarker panel for hepatic fibrosis in MASLD.

Lars Verschuren, Anne Linde Mak, Arianne van Koppen, Serdar Özsezen, Sonia Difrancesco, Martien P M Caspers, Jessica Snabel, David van der Meer, Anne-Marieke van Dijk, Elias Badal Rashu and 17 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07731360 (A Non-Invasive Diagnostic Panel for MASLD in Children With Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 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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NCT07731360 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Non-Invasive Diagnostic Panel for MASLD in Children With Obesity: Evaluation of a Multiparametric Biomarker Panel and Genetic Risk Score Using LASSO-Regularized Logistic Regression - The PedMASLD-MultiOmics Pilot Study

TypeobservationalSponsorKayseri City HospitalRan2026 to 2027Enrolled180ConditionsMetabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, Pediatric Obesity, Insulin Resistance SyndromeArmsNon-Invasive Multi-Parameter Diagnostic Panel
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Lars Verschuren *TNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands. lars.verschuren@tno.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7847-9037
Anne Linde Mak *Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2101-161X
Arianne van KoppenTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9588-8863
Serdar ÖzsezenTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Sonia DifrancescoTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7254-3686
Martien P M CaspersTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0248-4008
Jessica SnabelTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.
David van der MeerGenomeScan, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-0127-9336
Anne-Marieke van DijkDepartment of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0831-527X
Elias Badal RashuGastro Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-9024
Puria NabilouGastro Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4764-4423
Mikkel Parsberg WergeGastro Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Koen van SonDepartment of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Robert KleemannTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Amanda J KiliaanDepartment of Medical Imaging, Anatomy, and Radboud Alzheimer Center, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2158-6210
Eric J HazebroekDepartment of Bariatric Surgery, Vitalys, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, the Netherlands and Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
André BoonstraDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-1616
Willem P BrouwerDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Michail DoukasDepartment of Pathology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8611-840X
Saurabh GuptaTranslational Medicine, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Princeton Pike, NJ, USA.
Cornelis KluftGood Biomarker Sciences, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Max NieuwdorpDepartment of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-7659
Joanne VerheijDepartment of Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lise Lotte GluudGastro Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9462-4468
Adriaan G HolleboomDepartment of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Maarten E TushuizenDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Roeland HanemaaijerTNO Healthy Living & Work, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate non-invasive biomarkers to diagnose metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)-related fibrosis are urgently needed. This study applies a translational approach to develop a blood-based biomarker panel for fibrosis detection in MASLD. A molecular gene expression signature identified from a diet-induced MASLD mouse model (LDLr-/-.Leiden) is translated into human blood-based biomarkers based on liver biopsy transcriptomic profiles and protein levels in MASLD patient serum samples. The resulting biomarker panel consists of IGFBP7, SSc5D and Sema4D. LightGBM modeling using this panel demonstrates high accuracy in predicting MASLD fibrosis stage (F0/F1: AUC = 0.82; F2: AUC = 0.89; F3/F4: AUC = 0.87), which is replicated in an independent validation cohort. The overall accuracy of the model outperforms predictions by the existing markers Fib-4, APRI and FibroScan. In conclusion, here we show a disease mechanism-related blood-based biomarker panel with three biomarkers which is able to identify MASLD patients with mild or advanced hepatic fibrosis with high accuracy.

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BiomarkersLiver CirrhosisSemaphorinsAdultAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFatty LiverFemaleHumansInsulin-Like Growth Factor Binding ProteinsLiverMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMiddle AgedBiomarkersinsulin-like growth factor binding protein-related protein 1Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding ProteinsReceptors, LDLSemaphorins

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