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Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci
   

Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

Andre Franke, Dermot P. B. McGovern, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Kai Wang, Graham L. Radford-Smith, Tariq Ahmad, Charlie W. Lees, Tobias Balschun, James Lee, Rebecca Roberts, …
Nature genetics, Vol.42(12), pp.1118-1125
01/12/2010
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/33580
Genetics & Heredity Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
We undertook a meta-analysis of six Crohn's disease genome-wide association studies (GWAS) comprising 6,333 affected individuals (cases) and 15,056 controls and followed up the top association signals in 15,694 cases, 14,026 controls and 414 parent-offspring trios. We identified 30 new susceptibility loci meeting genome-wide significance (P < 5 x 10(-8)). A series of in silico analyses highlighted particular genes within these loci and, together with manual curation, implicated functionally interesting candidate genes including SMAD3, ERAP2, IL10, IL2RA, TYK2, FUT2, DNMT3A, DENND1B, BACH2 and TAGAP. Combined with previously confirmed loci, these results identify 71 distinct loci with genome-wide significant evidence for association with Crohn's disease.

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