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Familial association of inflammatory bowel diseases with other autoimmune and related diseases.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2010
Hemminki Kari, Li Xinjun, Sundquist Kristina, Sundquist Jan
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OBJECTIVES: Familial risk estimates are useful for genetic counseling, etiological understanding, and design of gene identification studies. We wanted to estimate the associations of ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) with 32 autoimmune and related diseases among parents and offspring, singleton siblings, twins, and spouses. METHODS: The Multigeneration Register in Sweden provides reliable access to...
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