“…There are three major proteins affected in PFIC, including the bile salt export pump (BSEP) encoded by ABCB11, multidrug resistance protein 3 (MDR3) encoded by ABCB4, and a membrane lipid composition protein (FIC1) encoded by ATP8B1, while three other reported proteins may be affected in PFIC patients, including tight junction protein 2 encoded by TJP2, the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) encoded by NR1H4, and myosin 5B encoded by MYO5B (Sambrotta et al, 2014;Qiu et al, 2017;Keitel et al, 2019). To date, except for NR1H4, splicing mutations have been found in other five genes associated with PFIC (http://www.hgmd.org) (Liu et al, 2010;van der Woerd et al, 2015;Khabou et al, 2016;Stenson et al, 2017;Al-Hussaini et al, 2021). In particular, FIC1 is part of the p-type adenosine triphosphatase type 4 subfamily involved in membrane phospholipid transport (Paulusma et al, 2008).…”