Genetics of inflammatory bowel disease and associated cancers
The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, result from an altered host response to intestinal flora, and genome-wide searches have identified a number of disease susceptibility alleles, such as NOD2/CARD15. IBD confers a high risk of development of a number o...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Sprog: | English |
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2006
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