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Genetic susceptibility factors for alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis.
Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] - 1 Jul 2015
Aghdassi Ali A, Weiss F Ulrich, Mayerle Julia, Lerch Markus M, Simon Peter
Abstract excerpt
Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas and frequently associated with immoderate alcohol consumption. Since only a small proportion of alcoholics eventually develop chronic pancreatitis genetic susceptibility factors have long been suspected to contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease. Smaller studies in ethnically defined populations have found that not only polymorphism...
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