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Genetic variants and monoallelic expression of surfactant protein-D in inflammatory bowel disease.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Sept 2011
Lin Zhenwu, John Gerrit, Hegarty John P, Berg Arthur, Yu Wei, Wang Yunhua, Kelly Ashley A, Peterson Blaise Z, Poritz Lisa S, Floros Joanna, Koltun Walter A
Abstract excerpt
Surfactant protein-D (SP-D) is expressed on mucosal surfaces and functions in the innate immune response to microorganisms. We studied the genetic association of the two nonsynonymous SP-D single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs721917 and rs2243639 in 256 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cases (123 CD and 133 UC) and 376 unrelated healthy individuals from an IBD population from Central Pennsylvania....
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