GHRL and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Further evidencing the role of ghrelin in NAFLD, recent case-control retrospective studies of biopsy-proven NAFLD patients suggested that the Leu72Met (rs696217 G > T) polymorphism and the “GG” genotype of rs26802 variant in the ghrelin gene have a protective effect against NAFLD [79,80].