Article
Environmental factors in primary biliary cirrhosis.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Aug 2014
Juran Brian D, Lazaridis Konstantinos N
Abstract excerpt
The etiology of the autoimmune liver disease primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) remains largely unresolved, owing in large part to the complexity of interaction between environmental and genetic contributors underlying disease development. Observations of disease clustering, differences in geographical prevalence, and seasonality of diagnosis rates suggest the environmental component to PBC is strong, and...
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