Specifically, in a study performed by Shiomi et al. (2020) in Japanese patients with T2DM and NAFLD receiving liraglutide for 24 weeks the improvement in liver function or fibrosis (assessed through aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and fibrosis-4 indices) was found to be independent of the body mass index [147]. The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.