Absence of mutation in the NOD2/CARD15 gene among 483 Japanese patients with Crohn's disease.

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Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), specifically Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), have increased significantly in western countries and Japan over the last decade, but very little is known about their pathogenesis. A candidate-gene approach recently identified NOD2/CARD15 as one susceptibility gene from the IBD1 locus on chromosome 16. Alterations in this gene were found in many Caucasian...

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