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Date publication

janvier 2007

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr FEIN Francine


Tous les auteurs :
Fein F, Hermelin B, Becker MC, Felix S, Carbonnel F

Résumé

The ABCB4 gene codes for a protein involved in the transport of phosphatidylcholine across the canalicular membrane of the hepatocyte. ABCB4 gene defects have been associated with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, adult biliary cirrhosis and the more recently described low phospholipid associated cholelithiasis syndrome. The present paper describes 2 probands with a long history of recurrent pancreatitis and cholelithiasis and the same heterozygous, as yet undescribed del 3683>3688 within exon 28 of the ABCB4 gene resulting in a loss of function. This report shows that ABCB4 mutations may cause acute recurrent biliary pancreatitis.

Référence

Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2007 Jan;31(1):106-9.