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Acute recurrent biliary pancreatitis associated with the ABCB4 gene mutation.
Gastroenterologie clinique et biologique - 1 Jan 2007
Fein Francine, Hermelin Brigitte, Becker Marie-Claude, Felix Sophie, Carbonnel Franck
Abstract excerpt
The ABCB4 gene codes for a protein involved in the transport of phosphatidylcholine across the canalicular membrane of the hepatocyte. ABCB4 gene defects have been associated with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, adult biliary cirrhosis and the more recently described low phospholipid associated cholelithiasis syndrome. The present paper describes 2...
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