MBOAT7 and liver disorder: Within the last two years, several independent GWAS studies have identified a liver disease susceptibility locus (rs641738) within a linkage-disequilibrium block that contains genes encoding MBOAT7 and TMC4 (Buch et al., 2015; Mancina et al., 2016; Luukkonen et al., 2016; International Liver Disease Genetics Consortium et al., 2016; Viitasalo et al., 2016; Krawczyk et al., 2017; Thabet et al., 2017).