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Genetics of the innate immune response in inflammatory bowel disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Mar 2007
Van Limbergen Johan, Russell Richard K, Nimmo Elaine R, Ho Gwo-Tzer, Arnott Ian D, Wilson David C, Satsangi Jack
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2/caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 15 (NOD2/CARD15) as the first susceptibility gene in Crohn's disease (CD) has shifted the focus of research into the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) firmly to the innate immune response and the integrity of the epithelial barrier. The subsequent implication in IBD of variant alleles of OCTN,...
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