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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease cholelithiasis
Phenotype C0037889|hereditary spherocytosis
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PubMedID- 24947795 Do ugt1a1 and hmox1 gene promoter polymorphisms increase the risk of hyperbilirubinemia and gallstones in patients with hereditary spherocytosis.
PubMedID- 22089616 There is now clear evidence that the inherited variability in the function of the gene for udp-glucuronosyltransferase-1 (ugt1*1, the enzyme responsible for hepatic glucuronidation of bilirubin) underlies the chronic hyperbilirubinaemia of gilbert's syndrome56, some cases of thalassaemia trait57, and some of the variations in the frequency of gallstones in patients with hereditary spherocytosis58.

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