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Genetic basis of chronic pancreatitis.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology. Supplement - 1 Jan 2002
Jansen J B M J, te Morsche R, van Goor H, Drenth J P H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pancreatitis has a proven genetic basis in a minority of patients. METHODS: Review of the literature on genetics of pancreatitis. RESULTS: Ever since the discovery that in most patients with hereditary pancreatitis a mutation in the gene encoding for cationic trypsinogen (R122H) was found that results in a gain of trypsin function', many other mutations in the cationic trypsinogen gene, as well as in...
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