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Susceptibility locus for inflammatory bowel disease on chromosome 16 has a role in Crohn's disease, but not in ulcerative colitis.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Oct 1996
Ohmen J D, Yang H Y, Yamamoto K K, Zhao H Y, Ma Y, Bentley L G, Huang Z, Gerwehr S, Pressman S, McElree C, Targan S, Rotter J I, Fischel-Ghodsian N
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In the Western world, chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presents as two major clinical forms, Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) [Targan, S.R. and Shanahan, F. (1994). In Retford, D.C (ed.), Inflammatory Bowel Disease: From Bench to Bedside. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore]. Genetic epidemiological studies, the occurrence of rare syndromes associated with IBD, and animal models suggest that...
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