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SUBMITTER: Strautnieks SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1715942 | biostudies-literature | 1997 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 19970901 3
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC; OMIM 211600) is the second most common familial cholestatic syndrome presenting in infancy. A locus has previously been mapped to chromosome 18q21-22 in the original Byler pedigree. This chromosomal region also harbors the locus for benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC) a related phenotype. Linkage analysis in six consanguineous PFIC pedigrees from the Middle East has previously excluded linkage to chromosome 18q21-22, indicating th ...[more]