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Association analyses of genetic polymorphisms of GSTM1, GSTT1, NQO1, NAT2, LPL, PRSS1, PSTI, and CFTR with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis in Japan.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Feb 2010
Maruyama Katsuya, Harada Shoji, Yokoyama Akira, Mizukami Satoshi, Naruse Satoru, Hirota Masahiko, Nishimori Isao, Otsuki Makoto
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Excessive consumption of alcohol is involved in the onset of pancreatitis. However, most of heavy drinkers do not always develop chronic pancreatitis. Various genetic factors appear to be involved in these individual differences in onset of chronic alcoholic pancreatitis. Here we investigated a possible association of alcoholic pancreatitis with polymorphisms of the various genes belong to the phase...
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