[Chronic pancreatitis--pancreas cancer: influence of genetic factors].

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Chronic pancreatitis: Only recently mutations in several genes were found in patients with chronic pancreatitis. In those with a familial chronic pancreatitis mutations of the cationic trypsinogen were identified and the variants N29I and R122H lead to an autosomal dominant disease. In this group of patients the mutation N34S of the trypsin inhibitor SPINK1 was detected. In so-called idiopathic pancreatitis both...

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