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Genetics and epigenetics of primary biliary cirrhosis.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Aug 2014
Bianchi Ilaria, Carbone Marco, Lleo Ana, Invernizzi Pietro
Abstract excerpt
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) has been considered a multifactorial autoimmune disease presumably arising from a combination of environmental and genetic factors, with genetic inheritance mostly suggested by familial occurrence and high concordance rate among monozygotic twins. In the last decade, genome-wide association studies, new data on sex chromosome defects and instabilities, and initial evidence on the...
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