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Endemic Tyrolean infantile cirrhosis is not an allelic variant of Wilson's disease.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 2000
Wijmenga C, Müller T, Murli I S, Brunt T, Feichtinger H, Schönitzer D, Houwen R H, Müller W, Sandkuijl L A, Pearson P L
Abstract excerpt
Recently, 138 cases of infantile cirrhosis originating in several families in the Austrian province of the Tyrol were reported. This endemic Tyrolean infantile cirrhosis (ETIC) is indistinguishable from Indian childhood cirrhosis (ICC), idiopathic copper toxicosis (ICT), and resembles the early forms of Wilson's disease (WND). It has been argued that ETIC might represent an allelic variant of the WND gene, which...
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