rs1004819 is the main disease-associated IL23R variant in German Crohn's disease patients: combined analysis of IL23R, CARD15, and OCTN1/2 variants.

BACKGROUND: The IL23R gene has been identified as a susceptibility gene for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the North American population. The aim of our study was to test this association in a large German IBD cohort and to elucidate potential interactions with other IBD genes as well as phenot...

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Main Authors: Jürgen Glas, Julia Seiderer, Martin Wetzke, Astrid Konrad, Helga-Paula Török, Silke Schmechel, Laurian Tonenchi, Christine Grassl, Julia Dambacher, Simone Pfennig, Kerstin Maier, Thomas Griga, Wolfram Klein, Jörg T Epplen, Uwe Schiemann, Christian Folwaczny, Peter Lohse, Burkhard Göke, Thomas Ochsenkühn, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Matthias Folwaczny, Thomas Mussack, Stephan Brand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950565?pdf=render