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Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, genetic susceptibility to Crohn's disease, and Sardinians: the way ahead.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2005
Sechi Leonardo A, Gazouli Maria, Ikonomopoulos John, Lukas John C, Scanu Antonio M, Ahmed Niyaz, Fadda Giovanni, Zanetti Stefania
Abstract excerpt
The present study was performed to determine what proportion of people in Sardinia with or without Crohn's disease were infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and had a preponderance of allelic variants of Nod 2, an intracellular protein involved in Crohn's disease susceptibility. Genetic analysis of the alleles of the NOD 2/CARD 15 gene (ins C 3020, G 908 R, and R 702 W alleles), linked to...
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