Article
CARD15 mutations in patients with Crohn's disease in a homogeneous Spanish population.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Mar 2004
Núñez Concepción, Barreiro Manuel, Domínguez-Muñoz J Enrique, Lorenzo Aurelio, Zapata Carlos, Peña A Salvador
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Three mutations in CARD15 have been repeatedly shown to be involved in Crohn's disease susceptibility, mainly in Caucasian individuals. However, those findings were not replicated in all populations studied so far. In this work, we studied the role of CARD15 mutations in a relatively homogeneous population from the Northwest of Spain, Galicia. METHODS: One hundred and sixty-five patients with Crohn's...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Carrier Proteins
- Crohn Disease
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Male
