In a subsequent study, that included a total of n = 192 patients with chronic liver diseases of any etiology and healthy controls showed that LCN2 is a reliable indicator of liver damage that is positively correlated with inflammation, but is not correlated with the degree of liver fibrosis per se (Borkham-Kamphorst et al., 2013). The gene discussed is LCN2; the disease is Hepatic fibrosis.