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Discovery and Functional Annotation of PRSS1 Promoter Variants in Chronic Pancreatitis.
Human mutation - 1 Nov 2016
Boulling Arnaud, Abrantes Amandine, Masson Emmanuelle, Cooper David N, Robaszkiewicz Michel, Chen Jian-Min, Férec Claude
Abstract excerpt
Recently, our resequencing of the promoter region of PRSS1 in French Caucasian individuals led to the identification of a functional variant (c.-204C > A) that is in perfect linkage disequilibrium with the "chronic pancreatitis (CP)-protective" PRSS1 c.-408C > T variant. Here, we extended the resequencing to 626 French Caucasians (242 idiopathic CP patients and 384 controls). We discovered three additional...
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