The CLD patients also had higher serum AST (176.6 U/L versus 41.5 U/L), serum ALT (81.1 U/L verses 38.1 U/L), alkaline phosphatase (109.7 U/L versus 88.7 U/L), prothrombin time (24.1 s verses 15.1 s) and procalcitonin (9.5 ng/mL versus 0.9 ng/mL) levels than the non CLD group, yet these values were not statistically significant. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and congenital secretory chloride diarrhea 1.