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Clinical predictors of inflammatory bowel disease in a genetically well-defined Caucasian population.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 23 Jan 2012
Kanaan Ziad M, Eichenberger Maurice R, Ahmad Surriya, Weller Clayton, Roberts Henry, Pan Jianmin, Rai Shesh N, Petras Robert, Weller E Brooks, Galandiuk Susan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), the two main types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are multifactorial conditions of unknown etiology. The objective of this study is to examine the combined gene-environment interactions influencing IBD susceptibility in a well-defined Caucasian cohort in rural mid-America. METHODS: Patients were diagnosed to have CD or UC using conventional...
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