Discovering genetic variants in crohn's disease by exploring genomic regions enriched of weak association signals

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 623-631

  D'addabbo, Annarita ^a   Palmieri, Orazio ^b   Maglietta, Rosalia ^a   Latiano, Anna ^b   Mukherjee, Sayan ^c   Annese, Vito ^b   Ancona, Nicola ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate gene; Crohn's disease; Genetic predisposition; Genome wide association (GWA)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREM GENE; CROHN DISEASE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRB2 GENE; HUMAN; IL12RB2 GENE; LCT GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAPT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79960378423     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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