Crohn's disease susceptibility genes are associated with leprosy in the vietnamese population

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1763-1767

  Grant, Audrey V ^a,b   Alter, Andrea ^c   Huong, Nguyen Thu ^d   Orlova, Marianna ^c   Van Thuc, Nguyen ^d   Ba, Nguyen Ngoc ^d   Thai, Vu Hong ^d   Abel, Laurent ^a,b,e   Schurr, Erwin ^c   Alcais, Alexandre ^a,b,e,f  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Hospital for Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Paris Descartes University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CCDC122 LACC1 GENE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HLA DR DQ GENE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOD2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPK2 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION STUDY; VIET NAM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROHN DISEASE; FAMILY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; NOD2 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIETNAM;

EID: 84869037440     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis588     Document Type: Article

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