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Evaluation of the MLH1 I219V alteration in DNA mismatch repair activity and ulcerative colitis.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 May 2008
Plotz Guido, Raedle Jochen, Spina Anna, Welsch Christoph, Stallmach Andreas, Zeuzem Stefan, Schmidt Carsten
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BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs; ulcerative colitis, UC, and Crohn's disease, CD) show familial clustering suggestive of a genetic background. A linkage susceptibility region for these diseases (IBD9) lies on chromosome 3p and includes the DNA mismatch repair gene MLH1. Loss of MLH1...
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