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Hereditary pancreatitis
(HP) is an of the due to causes. It was first described in 1952 by Comfort and Steinberg but it was not until 1996 that Whitcomb et al isolated the first responsible in the trypsinogen gene (PRSS1) on the long arm of seven (7q35).
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