“…It has been suggested that many lifestyle choices and environmental factors such as excessive drinking, pancreatic duct strictures, viral or bacterial infection, hyperlipidemia, metabolic disorders, and infections are associated with disease susceptibility (Álvarez et al, 2015;Greer et al, 2015;Pohl and Uc, 2015;Talukdar and Vege, 2015;Tun-Abraham et al, 2015). Recent studies have reported that genetic factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis, such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-8, IL-10, heme oxygenase-1 gene, Toll-like receptor gene, tumor necrosis factor alpha gene, and heat-shock protein 70-2 gene (Özhan et al, 2010;Bishehsari et al, 2012;Srivastava et al, 2012;Gulla et al, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Matas-Cobos et al, 2015).…”