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Childhood-onset hereditary pancreatitis with mutations in the CT gene and SPINK1 gene.
Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society - 1 Oct 2013
Awano Hiroyuki, Lee Tomoko, Yagi Mariko, Masamune Atsushi, Kume Kiyoshi, Takeshima Yasuhiro, Iijima Kazumoto
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary pancreatitis (HP) is an autosomal-dominant gene disorder. The affected genes have been identified as the cationic trypsinogen (CT) gene and the serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) gene. These gene abnormalities alone, however, do not necessarily regulate the onset or severi...
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