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ABO blood type B and fucosyltransferase 2 non-secretor status as genetic risk factors for chronic pancreatitis
28 Apr 2015
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Sir, We thank Kirsten et al 1 for their comments on our recent study,2 in which we reported a genome-wide analysis on ∼4000 volunteers from the population-based Study of Health in Pommerania (SHIP) cohort3 with replication in 1444 blood donors. We had found a significant association between higher serum lipase activities and three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) as well as the fucosyltransferase-2 (FUT2)...
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