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Genetic risk profiling and gene signature modeling to predict risk of complications after IPAA.
Diseases of the colon and rectum - 1 Mar 2012
Sehgal Rishabh, Berg Arthur, Polinski Joseph I, Hegarty John P, Lin Zhenwu, McKenna Kevin J, Stewart David B, Poritz Lisa S, Koltun Walter A
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BACKGROUND: Severe pouchitis and Crohn's disease-like complications are 2 adverse postoperative complications that confound the success of the IPAA in patients with ulcerative colitis. To date, approximately 83 single nucleotide polymorphisms within 55 genes have been associated with IBD. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms that correlate with complications after IPAA...
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