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Intragenic duplication: a novel mutational mechanism in hereditary pancreatitis.
Pancreas - 1 May 2011
Joergensen Maiken T, Geisz Andrea, Brusgaard Klaus, Schaffalitzky de Muckadell Ove B, Hegyi Péter, Gerdes Anne-Marie, Sahin-Tóth Miklós
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: In a hereditary pancreatitis family from Denmark, we identified a novel intragenic duplication of 9 nucleotides in exon-2 of the human cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) gene (c.63_71dup) which at the amino-acid level resulted in the insertion of 3 amino acids within the activation peptide of cationic trypsinogen (p.K23_I24insIDK). The aim of the present study was to characterize the effect of this unique...
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