HLA class II alleles associated with susceptibility and resistance to Crohn's disease in the Jewish population

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 71-76

  Gulwani Akolkar, Beena ^a   Akolkar, Pradip N ^a   Lin, Xing Yu ^a   Heresbach, Denis ^a   Manji, Ryhana ^a   Katz, Seymour ^a   Yang, Soo Young ^b   Silver, Jack ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi jewish; Crohn's disease; Genetic susceptibility; HLA class II

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; JEW; RISK;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; JEWS; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 0034185627     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00054725-200005000-00001     Document Type: Article

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