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Genetic predictors of medically refractory ulcerative colitis.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Nov 2010
Haritunians Talin, Taylor Kent D, Targan Stephan R, Dubinsky Marla, Ippoliti Andrew, Kwon Soonil, Guo Xiuqing, Melmed Gil Y, Berel Dror, Mengesha Emebet, Psaty Bruce M, Glazer Nicole L, Vasiliauskas Eric A, Rotter Jerome I, Fleshner Phillip R, McGovern Dermot P B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Acute severe ulcerative colitis (UC) remains a significant clinical challenge and the ability to predict, at an early stage, those individuals at risk of colectomy for medically refractory UC (MR-UC) would be a major clinical advance. The aim of this study was to use a genome-wide ass...
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