Update on the heritability of inflammatory bowel disease: The importance of twin studies

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Initial reports of familial clustering of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), i.e., families with multiple relatives with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC), suggested that these relatively uncommon disorders might be due to substantial genetic effects. Case series later showed that IBD risk to relatives of IBD probands (first person with IBD identified in a family) far exceeded that expected for...

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