# An unbiased ranking of murine dietary models based on their proximity to human metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)

*PRI Rank #12 · Topics and Trends in Most Cited Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Papers, Class of 2026*

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| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Rank | #12 |
| 18m citations | 162 |
| Journal | Nature Metabolism |
| Year | 2024 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s42255-024-01043-6 |
| Corresponding authors | Michèle Vacca, Dina Tiniakos, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Michèle Vacca, Evangelia Petsalaki |
| Institution | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |

**Ranking page:** [Topics and Trends in Most Cited Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Papers, Class of 2026](https://pri.pepkio.com/top-papers/liver-disease-diagnosis-and-treatment/2026)

**Paper link:** [10.1038/s42255-024-01043-6](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-024-01043-6)

## Topics

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease · Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease · Steatohepatitis · MASH-fibrosis · murine dietary models · human proximity score · Western diet · high cholesterol content · choline-deficient models · liver histology · transcriptome benchmarking · metabolic phenotype · Hepatocellular carcinoma · Cirrhosis · F2+ fibrosis · genetic manipulation · preclinical rodent models · translational relevance

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