[As DLK1 is a negative regulator of adipocyte differentiation and may control cell fate during differentiation, overexpression of DLK1 protein in HSCs in the early stage of biliary atresia suggests that DLK1 may be implicated in the transformation of HSCs from fat-storing cells to myofibroblasts and in fibrogenesis associated with biliary atresia.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE