NQO1 and Hepatic steatosis: Furthermore, in human, morbidly obese patients with hepatic steatosis showed an increase in hepatic TP53INP1 expression, and TP53INP1 expression was correlated with the level of a marker of hepatocyte death (keratin 18), with the grade of steatosis and with the expression level of the stress marker NQO1 (Supplementary Fig S2D–H and Supplementary Table S2).