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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Jorge Bezerra
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-46960 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 20140527 1
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Biliary atresia (BA) is a progressive fibroinflammatory obstruction of extrahepatic bile ducts that presents as neonatal cholestasis. Due to the overlap in clinical, biochemical, and histological features with other causes of cholestasis, the diagnosis requires an intraoperative cholangiogram. Thus, we determined whether diseased livers express a gene expression signature unique to BA. Applying stringent statistical analysis to a genome-wide liver expression platform of 64 inf ...[more]