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CARD15 polymorphisms in Behçet's disease.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Ahmad T, Zhang L, Gogus F, Verity D, Wallace G, Madanat W, Fayyad F, James T, Neville M, Kanawati C, Fortune F, Celik A, Stanford M, Jewell D P, Marshall S E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic multi-system inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology, which shares many features of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). CARD15 has recently been identified as the first susceptibility gene in Crohn's disease (CD). OBJECTIVE: Given certain clinical and pathological similarities between CD and BD, and recent evidence of linkage of BD to the CARD15 genomic...
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