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Detailed Haplotype-Tagging Study of Germline Variation of MUC19 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 16; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/ibd.21074

ISSN

1536-4844

Autores

Anne Phillips, Elaine R. Nimmo, Johan Van Limbergen, Hazel E. Drummond, Linda Smith, Jack Satsangi,

Tópico(s)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Resumo

To the Editor:Since the discovery of NOD2 as aCrohn’s disease (CD) susceptibilitygene, more recent genomewide associa-tion scans (GWAS), detecting loci con-ferring odds ratios (OR) of above 1.3–1.5, have uncovered a large number offurther susceptibility loci and genes,including IL23R in the TH17 pathway,and the autophagy genes ATG16L1 andIRGM.

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