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SUBMITTER: Zou WB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232107 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zou Wen-Bin WB Tang Xin-Ying XY Zhou Dai-Zhan DZ Qian Yang-Yang YY Hu Liang-Hao LH Yu Fei-Fei FF Yu Dong D Wu Hao H Deng Shun-Jiang SJ Lin Jin-Huan JH Zhao An-Jing AJ Zhao Zhen-Hua ZH Wu Hong-Yu HY Zhu Jia-Hui JH Qian Wei W Wang Lei L Xin Lei L Wang Min-Jun MJ Wang Li-Juan LJ Fang Xue X He Lin L Masson Emmanuelle E Cooper David N DN Férec Claude C Li Zhao-Shen ZS Chen Jian-Min JM Liao Zhuan Z
Clinical and translational gastroenterology 20181112 11
<h4>Objectives</h4>Rare pathogenic variants in the SPINK1, PRSS1, CTRC, and CFTR genes have been strongly associated with a risk of developing chronic pancreatitis (CP). However, their potential impact on the age of disease onset and clinical outcomes, as well as their potential interactions with environmental risk factors, remain unclear. These issues are addressed here in a large Chinese CP cohort.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed targeted next-generation sequencing of the four CP-associated genes ...[more]