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Common variants in NOD2 and IL23R are not associated with inflammatory bowel disease in Indians.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Apr 2011
Mahurkar Swapna, Banerjee Rupa, Rani Vasantha S, Thakur Nikita, Rao Guduru Venkat, Reddy Duvvuru Nageshwar, Chandak Giriraj R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are two major phenotypes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that present with inflammation of the colon or the entire gastrointestinal tract, respectively. Genome-wide association studies have confirmed the role of nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein-2 (NOD2) variants and identified several other genes associated with IBD. We...
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