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Scale and Scope of Gene-Alcohol Interactions in Chronic Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review.
Genes - 25 Mar 2021
Chen Jian-Min, Herzig Anthony F, Génin Emmanuelle, Masson Emmanuelle, Cooper David N, Férec Claude
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BACKGROUND: Excessive alcohol consumption has long been known to be the primary cause of chronic pancreatitis (CP) but genetic risk factors have been increasingly identified over the past 25 years. The scale and scope of gene-alcohol interactions in CP nevertheless remain unclear. METHODS: All studies that had obtained genetic variant data concurrently on alcoholic CP (ACP) patients, non-ACP (NACP) patients and...
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