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Evidence for impaired CARD15 signalling in Crohn's disease without disease linked variants.
PloS one - 12 Nov 2009
Seidelin Jakob Benedict, Broom Oliver Jay, Olsen Jørgen, Nielsen Ole Haagen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sensing of muramyl dipeptide (MDP) is impaired in Crohn's disease (CD) patients with disease-linked variants of the CARD15 (caspase activation and recruitment domain 15) gene. Animal studies suggest that normal CARD15 signalling prevents inflammatory bowel disease, and may be important for disease development in CD. However, only a small fraction of CD patients carry the disease linked CARD15...
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