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A population-based case-control study of CARD15 and other risk factors in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2007
Brant Steven R, Wang Ming-Hsi, Rawsthorne Patricia, Sargent Michael, Datta Lisa Wu, Nouvet Franklin, Shugart Yin Yao, Bernstein Charles N
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OBJECTIVES: Multiple established Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) risk factors including family history, tobacco use, Jewish ethnicity, urban residency, and CARD15/NOD2 mutations have been evaluated singly and in hospital-based observational studies. The goal of this study was to assess the relative contributions of all these risk factors jointly in a nonreferral, population-based cohort derived...
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