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Two novel mutations in African and Asian children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Jul 2011
Giovannoni Isabella, Santorelli Filippo Maria, Candusso Manila, Di Rocco Maja, Bellacchio Emanuele, Callea Francesco, Francalanci Paola
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Defects in ABCB4 have been found to cause progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3. Liver histology is important, but not specific, for diagnosis. Genotyping is conclusive. AIM: To determine the pathogenetic role of two novel ABCB4 mutations in two unrelated children from North Africa and South Asia. METHODS: In both children liver histology showed extensive ductular reaction with portal...
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