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Liver fibrogenesis and genetic factors.
Clinics and research in hepatology and gastroenterology - 1 Jun 2011
Boursier Jérôme, Louvet Alexandre
Abstract excerpt
Chronic liver diseases lead to the accumulation of fibrosis in the liver with eventual progression to cirrhosis and its complications. However, there is a wide range of inter-individual variation in the liver fibrogenesis process, thus posing a challenge to physicians to identify patients with poor prognosis. As demographic and environmental factors only account for a small portion of fibrogenesis variability,...
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