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Variants in the LGALS9 Gene Are Associated With Development of Liver Disease in Heavy Consumers of Alcohol.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 1 May 2016
Rosen Hugo R, Golden-Mason Lucy, Daly Ann K, Yang Ivana, Day Christopher P
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of chronic liver disease and contributes to a large proportion of cirrhosis-related deaths worldwide. However, only a fraction of heavy consumers of alcohol develop advanced alcoholic liver disease (ALD), so there are likely to be other risk factors. We investigated whether polymorphisms in the gene encoding galectin-9 (LGALS9), previously shown to mediate...
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