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Inflammatory bowel disease: dysfunction of autophagy?
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2012
Scharl Michael, Rogler Gerhard
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies identified single nucleotide polymorphisms within gene loci, encoding autophagy genes, e.g. the autophagy-related 16-like 1 (ATG16L1) and the immunity-related GTPase family M (IRGM), as an important risk factor for the onset of chronic inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease (CD) or rheumatoid arthritis. CD is characterized by a breakdown of the intestinal epithelial...
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