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Volume 348:1066-1067 March 13, 2003 Number 11
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Genetic Testing

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To the Editor: In Burke's review of genetic testing (Dec. 5 issue),1 Tables 1 and 2 offer examples of genetic tests. The tables are intended to be illustrative, not exhaustive, and most entries are based on information from GeneTests–GeneClinics at http://www.geneclinics.org. According to the author, this Web site contains a comprehensive and continually updated listing of available genetic tests. To our surprise, a search on this Web site for hereditary pancreatitis (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [OMIM] number 167800) failed.

Hereditary pancreatitis follows an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance with 80 percent penetrance and is associated with mutations . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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