Reviewer's report 
 Lack of significant association of an insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin converting Title: 
enzyme (ACE) gene with tropical calcific pancreatitis 
 3  4 December 2006 Version: Date: 
 Joost P Drenth Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
The authors have clarified all outstanding questions now and I have no additional points to make. 
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Reviewer's report 
 Lack of significant association of an insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin converting Title: 
enzyme (ACE) gene with tropical calcific pancreatitis 
 3  4 December 2006 Version: Date: 
 Joost P Drenth Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
The authors have clarified all outstanding questions now and I have no additional points to make. 
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reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
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 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research interests Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
'I declare that I have no competing interests' below. 
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Reviewer's report 
 Lack of significant association of an insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin converting Title: 
enzyme (ACE) gene with tropical calcific pancreatitis 
 3  4 December 2006 Version: Date: 
 Joost P Drenth Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
The authors have clarified all outstanding questions now and I have no additional points to make. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research interests Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
'I declare that I have no competing interests' below. 
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