Kladney et al used Western blot to analyse differences in GP73 content between cirrhosis and healthy subjects caused by different causes, including 17 healthy subjects, seven cases of autoimmune cirrhosis, nine cases of alcoholic cirrhosis and 14 patients with chronic hepatitis B cirrhosis and 23 patients with chronic hepatitis C cirrhosis. The gene discussed is GOLM1; the disease is alcoholic liver cirrhosis.