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Variation at NOD2/CARD15 in familial and sporadic cases of Crohn's disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2002
Zhou Zhifeng, Lin Xing-Yu, Akolkar Pradip N, Gulwani-Akolkar Beena, Levine Jeremiah, Katz Seymour, Silver Jack
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Recent reports indicate that allelic variants in NOD2/CARD15 are associated with Crohn's disease (CD) susceptibility, and that homozygosity or compound heterozygosity at this locus for any of three recently defined sequence variants confers a greatly increased risk of CD. These sequence changes include two missense mutations, R702W and G908R, and a frameshift insertion, 1007insC. The aim of this study...
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