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Pattern recognition receptor and autophagy gene variants are associated with development of antimicrobial antibodies in Crohn's disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Sept 2012
Murdoch Travis B, Xu Wei, Stempak Joanne M, Landers Carol, Targan Stephan R, Rotter Jerome I, Silverberg Mark S
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BACKGROUND: We sought to investigate whether variants in genes involved in bacterial sensing and autophagy (NOD2, TLR5, IRGM, ATG16L1) and the interleukin-23 signaling pathway (IL12B, IL23R, STAT3) were associated with development of antimicrobial antibodies in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). METHODS: A cohort of 616 CD patients from a tertiary referral hospital (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto) was evaluated....
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