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Pathway-based Genome-wide Association Studies Reveal the Association Between Growth Factor Activity and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Jul 2016
Li Jin, Wei Zhi, Chang Xiao, Cardinale Christopher J, Kim Cecilia E, Baldassano Robert N, Hakonarson Hakon
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BACKGROUND: The inflammatory bowel diseases known as Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are related autoimmune conditions with a complex etiology composed of genetic and environmental factors. Genetic studies have revealed 200 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel diseases, but these only account for a small fraction of the genetic heritability of the disease. We employed pathway-based...
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