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A novel NOD2/CARD15 haplotype conferring risk for Crohn disease in Ashkenazi Jews.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Sugimura Kazuhito, Taylor Kent D, Lin Ying-chao, Hang Tieu, Wang Dai, Tang Yong-Ming, Fischel-Ghodsian Nathan, Targan Stephan R, Rotter Jerome I, Yang Huiying
Abstract excerpt
Crohn disease (CD) exhibits a 2-4-fold increased frequency in Jews as compared with other ethnic/racial groups. Three coding variants of the NOD2/CARD15 have been reported as independent disease-predisposing mutations (DPMs), but these were found in only 30%-40% of patients with CD and could not account for all the linkage between CD and the IBD1 locus. The aim of the present study was to explore whether...
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