According to KEGG pathway analysis, these potent proteins were involved in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (hsa04932), metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450 (hsa00980), drug metabolism-cytochrome P450 (hsa00982) and VEGF signaling pathway (hsa04370) (Fig. 4D). Here, VEGFA is linked to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.