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Negative association between smoking and anti-saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies in Crohn's disease.
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
Van Kemseke C, Belaïche J, Steeman C, Louis E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease (CD) is a polygenic multifactorial heterogeneous disease. Anti-Saccharomyces Cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA) correlate highly with CD and are present in 50-80% of patients. The reason for ASCA positivity or negativity in CD is unknown. The aim of our work was to analyse c...
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