Article
Endemic Tyrolean infantile cirrhosis: an ecogenetic disorder.
Lancet (London, England) - 30 Mar 1996
Muller T, Feichtinger H, Berger H, Muller W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: 138 infants and young children died from an endemic infantile liver cirrhosis in a circumscribed rural area of western Austria between 1900 and 1974. Frequency of the disease peaked between 1930 and 1960. It has disappeared from this area since 1974. METHODS: Clinical and genetic data on the patients was gathered; pedigrees analysed and ethnographic studies and interviews were undertaken. FINDINGS:...
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