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My child has been diagnosed with cholestatic liver disease. Are my other children at risk and should they be tested?

April 26, 2017child children cholestatic diagnosed disease liver risk tested

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My child has been diagnosed with cholestatic liver disease. Are my other children at risk and should they be tested?

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To the best of our knowledge, neither biliary atresia nor idiopathic neonatal hepatitis is a genetic inherited disease and your other children are not at risk. However, the five diseases being studied in CLiC are genetic diseases. Please see the CLiC website for further details.