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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in SLC22A23 are associated with ulcerative colitis in a Canadian white cohort.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Jul 2014
Serrano León Alejandra, Amir Shaghaghi Mandana, Yurkova Natalia, Bernstein Charles N, El-Gabalawy Hani, Eck Peter
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BACKGROUND: SLC22A23 is an orphan gene in the SLC22 family of organic membrane transporters, and its single-nucleotide polymorphism rs17309827-T was recently nominally associated with intestinal inflammation in a genome-wide association study. Other polymorphisms in the SLC22A23 gene have been associated with diseases with an inflammatory component, and polymorphisms in related genes in the SLC22 family have been...
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