Genetic and Molecular Aspects of Gastrointestinal Disease

1.Early Events in Acute Pancreatitis (Halangk) 2.Predictors of Severity and Necrosis in Acute Pancreatitis (Whitcomb) 3.Cationic Trypsinogen Mutations and Pancreatitis (Neoptolemos) 4.Serine Protese Inhibitor Kazal Type 1 Mutations and Pancreatitis (Schneider) 5.The Role of Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutations in Determining Susceptibility to Chronic Pancreatitis (Cohn) 6.Molecular Diagnosis of Solid and Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas (McGrath) 7.Genetics of Hereditary Pancreatic Carcinoma (Hahn) 8.Molecular Markers of Dysplasia in Helicoabcter pylori-Associated Gastric Carcinogenesis (Sepulveda) 9.MSI Testing and DNA Mismatch Repair Deficiencies in Sporadic and Hereditary Gastrointestinal Cancers (Sepulveda) 10.Pathophysiology, Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Colon Cancer and Adenomatous Polyps (Cappell)