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Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: evaluation of three positional candidate genes, TRPC1, TRPC5 and TRPC6, by association analysis and re-sequencing.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Everett Kate V, Chioza Barry A, Georgoula Christina, Reece Ashley, Gardiner R Mark, Chung Eddie M K
Abstract excerpt
Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is the most common inherited form of gastrointestinal obstruction in infancy with a striking male preponderance. Infants present with vomiting due to gastric outlet obstruction caused by hypertrophy of the smooth muscle of the pylorus. Two loci speci...
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