TWIST1 and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Compared to the NAFLD-cirrhosis patients and healthy controls, genes related to acetate (phosphate acetyltransferase, pta), butyrate (phosphate butyryltransferase, ptb), and propionate (fumarate reductase, frd, and succinate-CoA synthetase, scs) synthesis were over-expressed in the feces of the NAFLD-HCC patients [67].