Investigation of multiple susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease in an Italian cohort of patients.

BACKGROUND: Recent GWAs and meta-analyses have outlined about 100 susceptibility genes/loci for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). In this study we aimed to investigate the influence of SNPs tagging the genes/loci PTGER4, TNFSF15, NKX2-3, ZNF365, IFNG, PTPN2, PSMG1, and HLA in a large pediatric- and...

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Main Authors: Anna Latiano, Orazio Palmieri, Tiziana Latiano, Giuseppe Corritore, Fabrizio Bossa, Giuseppina Martino, Giuseppe Biscaglia, Daniela Scimeca, Maria Rosa Valvano, Maria Pastore, Antonio Marseglia, Renata D'Incà, Angelo Andriulli, Vito Annese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3144927?pdf=render