Pancreatitis is a heterogeneous diseases with hereditary and non-hereditary transmission, manifesting itself in acute and chronic forms. Tropical chronic Pancreatitis prevalent in the peri-equitorial tropical regions is a juvenile form of nonalcoholic, idiopathic, calcific pancreatitis with progressive deterioration of the endocrine function leading to diabetes, termed as Fibrocalculous Pancrea...

Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency predisposes subjects to developing pulmonary emphysema and childhood liver cirrhosis. We have studied restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of the alpha 1 antitrypsin gene in a normal population and a group of patients with pulmonary emphysema. We have identified five RFLPs with eight restriction enzymes. The most frequent polymorphisms have been detec...