An investigation of genome-wide studies reported susceptibility loci for ulcerative colitis shows limited replication in north Indians.

Genome-Wide Association studies (GWAS) of both Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) have unearthed over 40 risk conferring variants. Recently, a meta-analysis on UC revealed several loci, most of which were either previously associated with UC or CD susceptibility in populations of...

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Main Authors: Garima Juyal, Pushplata Prasad, Sabyasachi Senapati, Vandana Midha, Ajit Sood, Devendra Amre, Ramesh C Juyal, Thelma BK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3031575?pdf=render