Local clustering of PRSS1 R122H mutations in hereditary pancreatitis patients from Northern Germany

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2585-2588

  Weiss, Frank Ulrich ^a   Zenker, Martin ^b   Ekici, Arif Bülent ^b   Simon, Peter ^a   Mayerle, Julia ^a   Lerch, Markus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRSS1 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MUTATION; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRYPSINOGEN;

EID: 53149140636     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02003.x     Document Type: Article

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