This finding, in parallel to the observation that the mean value of absorbances associated with the serum levels of autoantibodies to VEGFR-3 is increased directly after BDL and stays high without enabling the distinction between one, three, and five weeks of BDL, a common tendency to TB but not to the relative fibrotic area, suggests that levels of autoantibodies to VEGFR-3 may be better associated with cholestasis than fibrosis. The gene discussed is FLT4; the disease is cholestasis.