DDX17 and steatosis: We found that DDX17 was substantially and positively correlated with steatosis (rho: 0.710, p < .001), lobular inflammation (rho: 0.515, p = .001), ballooning (rho: 0.625, p < .001) and fibrosis (rho: 0.418, p < .001), which are the major histological features of NASH (Table 1).