Caspase-10 affects the pathogenesis of primary biliary cholangitis by regulating inflammatory cell death

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Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune disease that involves chronic inflammation and injury to biliary epithelial cells. To identify critical genetic factor(s) in PBC patients, we performed whole-exome sequencing of five female siblings, including one unaffected and four affected sisters, in a multi-PBC family, and identified 61 rare heterozygote variants that segregated only within the affected...

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