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  1. Center for Basic Research in Digestive Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street, SW, 55905, Rochester, MN, USA

    Yoshiyuki Ueno & Nicholas F. LaRusso

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street, SW, 55905, Rochester, MN, USA

    Nicholas F. LaRusso

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This work was supported by Grant DK24031 from the National Institutes of Health (N.F.L.) and a Senior Research Fellowship Award from the American Gastroenterological Association and the Merk Research Foundation (Y.U.)

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Ueno, Y., LaRusso, N.F. Primary sclerosing cholangitis. J Gastroenterol 29, 531–543 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02361256

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