Over the past 5 years, several gain-of-function missense mutations in the human cationic trypsinogen gene (PRSS1, OMIM 276000) have been associated with hereditary and/or sporadic pancreatitis. This study reports a new pancreatitis-associated mutation--R116C (CGT > TGT: c.346C > T)--in the gene.
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