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Deletion polymorphism upstream of IRGM associated with altered IRGM expression and Crohn's disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2008
McCarroll Steven A, Huett Alan, Kuballa Petric, Chilewski Shannon D, Landry Aimee, Goyette Philippe, Zody Michael C, Hall Jennifer L, Brant Steven R, Cho Judy H, Duerr Richard H, Silverberg Mark S, Taylor Kent D, Rioux John D, Altshuler David, Daly Mark J, Xavier Ramnik J
Abstract excerpt
Following recent success in genome-wide association studies, a critical focus of human genetics is to understand how genetic variation at implicated loci influences cellular and disease processes. Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with SNPs around IRGM, but coding-sequence variation has been excluded as a source of this association. We identified a common, 20-kb deletion polymorphism, immediately upstream of...
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