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Limited evidence for parent-of-origin effects in inflammatory bowel disease associated loci.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Fransen Karin, Mitrovic Mitja, van Diemen Cleo C, Thelma B K, Sood Ajit, Franke Andre, Schreiber Stefan, Midha Vandana, Juyal Garima, Potocnik Uros, Fu Jingyuan, Nolte Ilja, Weersma Rinse K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies of two main forms of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), have identified 99 susceptibility loci, but these explain only 23% of the genetic risk. Part of the 'hidden heritability' could be in transmissible genetic effects in which mRNA expression in the offspring depends on the parental origin of the allele (genomic...
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