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The CC chemokine receptor 5 delta32 mutation is not associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in NE England.
Genes and immunity - 1 Apr 2001
Craggs A, Welfare M, Donaldson P T, Mansfield J C
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract of unknown aetiology. Evidence of abnormalities in immune regulation and cytokine production in patients with IBD has led to investigations of various immuno-regulatory genes as potential candidate susceptibility loci. Studies using whole genome scanning have highlighted chromosomes 3, 7, 12 and 16. A 32...
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