. . . . . . . . . . . . "[ Patients with heterozygous AATD of PiZ type bear an increased risk for chronic liver disease. If at all, this genetic defect will become clinically relevant only in middle-aged or old adults. It rarely causes liver cirrhosis even without concurrent liver disease. It can aggravate or can be aggravated by advanced coexistent chronic liver diseases. PiZ immunohistochemistry is an easy, highly specific method to detect this metabolic defect on liver biopsies.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2013-07-06"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:32:24+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .