Clinical signs and genetic sequencing of benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis

Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis （BRIC） is a Prare autosomal recessive liver disease characterizedby intermittent attacks of cholestasis that was first reported by Summerskill and Walshe in 1959.1 A few reports on patients with BRIC in China have been described in recent years, however, it is still a challenge to give the patients a correct diagnosis. Therefore, we collected five cases in the Beijing Friendship Hospital and the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in the past two years to summarize their clinical features, and explore the mutation region of the ATP8B1 gene from Chinese patients with BRIC.