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Positive association of genetic variants in the upstream region of NKX2-3 with Crohn's disease in Japanese patients.
Gut - 1 Feb 2009
Yamazaki K, Takahashi A, Takazoe M, Kubo M, Onouchi Y, Fujino A, Kamatani N, Nakamura Y, Hata A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A number of genome-wide association studies have been performed as a robust means of identifying susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease (CD). The loci detected after the completion of the HapMap project are quite concordant among these studies, suggesting that the results are reliable. Recently, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) reported the primary scanning of 17,000...
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