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Influence of Crohn's disease risk alleles and smoking on disease location.
Diseases of the colon and rectum - 1 Aug 2011
Chen Hongyan, Lee Alexander, Bowcock Anne, Zhu Wei, Li Ellen, Ciorba Matthew, Hunt Steven
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OBJECTIVE: : Our objective is to assess the effect of genetic and environmental factors on Crohn's disease location. DESIGN: : We identified 628 patients with Crohn's disease within the Washington University database (April 2005 through February 2010) that had complete information on 31 Crohn's disease-associated genotypes and clinical information on disease location (L1 to L4), smoking, sex, race, and age at...
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