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Assessment of heterogeneity between European Populations: a Baltic and Danish replication case-control study of SNPs from a recent European ulcerative colitis genome wide association study.
BMC medical genetics - 13 Oct 2011
Andersen Vibeke, Ernst Anja, Sventoraityte Jurgita, Kupcinskas Limas, Jacobsen Bent A, Krarup Henrik B, Vogel Ulla, Jonaitis Laimas, Denapiene Goda, Kiudelis Gediminas, Balschun Tobias, Franke Andre
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Differences in the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease between different European countries and ethnicities have previously been reported. In the present study, we wanted to assess the role of 11 newly identified UC risk variants, derived from a recent European UC genome wide association study (GWAS) (Franke et al., 2010), for 1) association with UC in the Nordic countries, 2) for...
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