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Review article: interactions between genotype and response to therapy in inflammatory bowel diseases.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 15 Nov 2006
Herrlinger K R, Jewell D P
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BACKGROUND: More than half of the patients with inflammatory bowel diseases are candidates for immunosuppressive therapy. However, even the most effective drugs used in inflammatory bowel disease are only successful in about two-thirds of patients. Adverse events limit their use in a further substantial proportion of patients. Recent research has focussed on the possibility of predicting a drugs' efficacy and/or...
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