Michele Pinon, Alessandro Gambella, Laura Giugliano, Cristina Chiadò, Silvia Kalantari, Valeria Bracciamà, Silvia Deaglio, Davide Tinti, Licia Peruzzi, Roberta Cotti, Silvia Catalano, Massimiliano Cadamuro, Luca Fabris, Pier Luigi Calvo, Renato Romagnoli
BACKGROUND: Hepatocyte nuclear factor 1B (HNF1B ) is a member of the homeodomain-containing family of transcription factors located on 17q12. HNF1B deficiency is associated with a clinical syndrome (kidney and urogenital malformations, maturity-onset diabetes of the young, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) and to an underdiagnosed liver involvement. Differently from HNF1A , the correlation between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and germline HNF1B deficiency has been poorly evaluated...
December 2022: BMJ Open Gastroenterology