Genetic polymorphisms in alcoholic pancreatitis.

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Chronic, excessive alcohol consumption is clearly associated with acute and chronic pancreatitis. However, both clinical and laboratory studies have demonstrated that alcohol consumption alone does not directly cause pancreatitis. Growing evidence suggests that environmental and possibly genetic cofactors must also be present before the mechanisms protecting the pancreas from pancreatitis are circumvented and...

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