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A meta‐analysis of immunogenetic Case–Control Association Studies in irritable bowel syndrome
30 Mar 2015
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BACKGROUND: To date, genetic-association studies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in selected candidate genes with the symptom phenotype of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have typically involved hundreds to 2000 patients. SNPs in immune-related genes, such as cytokine and cytokine receptor encoding genes, have been reported to associate with IBS risk. METHODS: We conducted two independent case-control...
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