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SUBMITTER: Wei Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3675261 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 20130523 6
We performed risk assessment for Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), the two common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), by using data from the International IBD Genetics Consortium's Immunochip project. This data set contains ~17,000 CD cases, ~13,000 UC cases, and ~22,000 controls from 15 European countries typed on the Immunochip. This custom chip provides a more comprehensive catalog of the most promising candidate variants by picking up the remaining common variants and ...[more]