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Novel mutations in the calcium sensing receptor gene in tropical chronic pancreatitis in India.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2008
Murugaian Elango E, Ram Kumar Ram Mohan, Radhakrishnan Lakshmi, Vallath Balakrishnan
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OBJECTIVE: Tropical chronic pancreatitis (TCP) is a form of chronic pancreatitis seen in many tropical countries in young non-alcoholic subjects who are often malnourished. Nutritional deficiencies, either at the macro or micro level, and food toxins have been implicated in its causation, although there is no final proof to confirm this suggestion. Mutations of SPINK1 and CFTR genes have been proposed as disease...
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