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Analysis of the human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (PSTI) gene mutations in Japanese patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2001
Kaneko K, Nagasaki Y, Furukawa T, Mizutamari H, Sato A, Masamune A, Shimosegawa T, Horii A
Abstract excerpt
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a continuing or relapsing inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Several studies have demonstrated that mutations in the cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) gene and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene are causative of the pathogenesis in a subset of hereditary and/or idiopathic CP cases. Recently, the N34S alteration of the pancreatic secretory trypsin...
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