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Identification of Variants in Genes Associated with Single-gene Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Whole-exome Sequencing.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Oct 2016
Ashton James J, Andreoletti Gaia, Coelho Tracy, Haggarty Rachel, Batra Akshay, Afzal Nadeem A, Beattie R Mark, Ennis Sarah
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BACKGROUND: Most cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are caused by complex host-environment interaction. There are a number of conditions associated with a single-gene mutation, most cases are very early onset (aged < 6 yr), present with a unique form of disease and often have atypical features. METHODS: Whole-exome data for 147 pediatric patients with IBD were interrogated for a panel of 51 genes...
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