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Trypsinogen gene mutations in patients with chronic or recurrent acute pancreatitis.
Pancreas - 1 Jan 2001
Truninger K, Köck J, Wirth H P, Muellhaupt B, Arnold C, von Weizsäcker F, Seifert B, Ammann R W, Blum H E
Abstract excerpt
Three-point mutations (R117H, N211, A16V) within the cationic trypsinogen gene have been identified in patients with hereditary pancreatitis (HP). A genetic background has also been discussed for idiopathic juvenile chronic pancreatitis (IJCP), which closely mimicks the clinical pattern of HP, and alcoholic chronic pancreatitis because only a small number of heavy drinkers develop pancreatitis. This prompted us...
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