Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) occurs in a significant number of nonobese individuals, especially in Asian populations. Many genetic loci are associated with NAFLD. However, no exome-wide analysis of polymorphism data to identify asso- ciations with NAFLD is available for nonobese individuals from Asia. We have sought to fill this gap. With informed consent, we selected individuals from a defined population in India and assessed their liver fat-graded per international recommendations, and their demo- graphic and anthropometric data were collected. A set of 153 individuals were identified with high-grade liver fat. For each of these fatty- liver individuals (cases), two controls of the same sex with no or little liver fat were selected, the age and BMI of each control not exceeding 5 years and 5 kg/m