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Cryptogenic multifocal ulcerating stenosing enteritis associated with homozygous deletion mutations in cytosolic phospholipase A2-α.
Gut - 1 Jan 2014
Brooke Matthew A, Longhurst Hilary J, Plagnol Vincent, Kirkby Nicholas S, Mitchell Jane A, Rüschendorf Franz, Warner Timothy D, Kelsell David P, MacDonald Thomas T
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OBJECTIVE: Cryptogenic multifocal ulcerating stenosing enteritis (CMUSE) is an extremely rare, but devastating, disease of unknown aetiology. We investigated the genetic basis of this autosomal recessive condition in a pair of affected siblings who have 40-year histories of catastrophic gastrointestinal and extraintestinal disease. DESIGN: Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism homozygosity mapping in the two...
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