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Confirmation of three inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility loci in a Chinese cohort.
International journal of colorectal disease - 1 Nov 2012
Lv Chaolan, Yang Xiaoming, Zhang Yiyang, Zhao Xinmei, Chen Zhengyan, Long Jinghua, Zhang Yingchun, Zhong Changqing, Zhi Jia, Yao Guopeng, Jiang Bo, Zhi Fachao
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PURPOSE: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified a number of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) susceptibility loci in White populations. The aim of our study was to evaluate whether these susceptibility loci also existed in a Chinese Han IBD population. METHODS: Peripheral blood DNA samples from groups of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) (n = 48), ulcerative colitis (UC) (n = 49), and healthy...
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