Article
Somatic evolution in non-neoplastic IBD-affected colon
2019-11-11
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Summary paragraph</h4> Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased risk of gastrointestinal cancers. Here, we whole-genome sequenced 447 colonic crypts from 46 IBD patients, and compared these to 412 crypts from 41 non-IBD controls. The average mutation rate of affected colonic epithelial cells is 2.4-fold that of healthy colon and this increase is mostly drive...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 822d3012-4623-519a-b2e6-bf81bd6456ac
- DOI
- 10.1101/832014
