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Genetics in primary sclerosing cholangitis.
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2011
Folseraas Trine, Melum Espen, Franke Andre, Karlsen Tom H
Abstract excerpt
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic and severe inflammatory disease leading to fibrotic bile duct destruction and in most cases liver cirrhosis. As in other complex genetic diseases, the sibling risk of PSC is more than ten times that of the general population. Recent genome-wide association studies have consistently identified several genetic susceptibility loci. The overlap of these loci with...
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