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Genetic analysis of the glycoprotein 2 gene in patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Pancreas - 1 Apr 2010
Masson Emmanuelle, Paliwal Sumit, Bhaskar Seema, Prakash Soami, Scotet Virginie, Reddy D Nageshwar, Le Maréchal Cédric, Ratan Chandak Giriraj, Chen Jian-Min, Férec Claude
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether variations in the glycoprotein 2 gene (GP2) may potentially affect the risk of chronic pancreatitis. METHODS: Six hundred sixty-one French white patients (idiopathic chronic pancreatitis, n = 590; familial chronic pancreatitis, n = 42; hereditary pancreatitis, n = 29), 445 Dravidian patients from India (tropical calcific pancreatitis, n = 306; idiopathic...
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