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Genetic Evaluation of Pancreatitis.
Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America - 1 Jan 2022
Fu Yichun, Lucas Aimee L
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Hereditary pancreatitis (HP) is a rare inherited chronic pancreatitis (CP) with strong genetic associations, with estimated prevalence ranging from 0.3 to 0.57 per 100,000 across Europe, North America, and East Asia. Apart from the most well-described genetic variants are PRSS1, SPINK1, and CFTR, many other genes, such as CTRC, CPA1, and CLDN2 and CEL have been found to associate with HP, typically in one of the...
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