Update on the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease.

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There is a general consensus that interplay of genetic and environmental factors leads to an overactive mucosal immune response, which mediates the tissue damage in inflammatory bowel disease. Ethnic aggregation of inflammatory bowel disease (particularly, increased incidence and prevalence in the Ashkenazim), familial aggregation of inflammatory bowel disease, and greater concordance for inflammatory bowel...

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