Recurrent familial intrahepatic cholestasis in the Faeroe Islands. Phenotypic heterogeneity but genetic homogeneity

Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 506-508

  Tygstrup, Niels ^a,e   Steig, Bjarni Á ^b   Juijn, Jenneke A ^c   Bull, Laura N ^d   Houwen, Roderick H J ^c  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b Queen Alexandrine's Hospital   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Hepatology ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLESTYRAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL; RIFAMPICIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADULT; AGING; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033027487     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510290214     Document Type: Article

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