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Impact of interobserver disagreement on phenotype-genotype associations in Crohn's disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Feb 2007
Oefferlbauer-Ernst Anna, Miehsler Wolfgang, Eckmüllner Otto, Travis Simon, Waldhoer Thomas, Dejaco Clemens, Gangl Alfred, Vogelsang Harald, Reinisch Walter
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BACKGROUND: Nonvalidated definitions of disease-related parameters in inflammatory bowel disease cause variations in diagnosis and disease classification. We determined interobserver agreement on applications of definitions of the Vienna Classification variables and computed the potential influence of misclassification on genotype/phenotype associations. METHODS: Ten records of patients with Crohn's disease (CD)...
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