The Familial Occurrence of Gallstone Disease
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 16 (4) , 377-382
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000151986
Abstract
The occurrence of gallstone disease among women married to patients with gallstone disease was compared with that among women married to the patients'' healthy brothers. No difference was found. The importance of this finding in the search for environmental factors in the etiology of gallstone disease is discussed.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Familial Occurrence of Gallstone DiseaseHuman Heredity, 1965
- Induction of gallstones in mice by feeding a cholesterol-cholic acid containing dietAmerican Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content, 1964
- BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DIHYDROCHOLESTEROL - PRODUCTION OF BILIARY CONCREMENTS AND INFLAMMATORY LESIONS OF THE BILIARY TRACT IN RABBITS1956