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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Iqra Qamar M.D.[2]

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Autoimmune pancreatitis is idiopathic in origin and has no clear etiology. Autoimmune pancreatitis is thought to be due to some autoimmune reaction against pancreas and might be associated with other autoimmune diseases.

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  1. Kamisawa T, Egawa N, Nakajima H (2003). "Autoimmune pancreatitis is a systemic autoimmune disease". Am. J. Gastroenterol. 98 (12): 2811–2. doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.08758.x. PMID 14687846.
  2. Stone JH, Zen Y, Deshpande V (2012). "IgG4-related disease". N. Engl. J. Med. 366 (6): 539–51. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1104650. PMID 22316447.

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