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Chromosome 3p and inflammatory bowel disease
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Editor,—We were particularly interested to read the paper of Hampe et al(OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science) which provides some supportive evidence for the presence of a gene involved in susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease on chromosome 3p. As Hampeet al describe, this region of interest was initially identified in a study of 186 affected sibling pairs, all resident in and indigenous to the UK.1 Since that initial observation, subsequent genome …
Professor S Schreiber. S.schreiber{at}mucosa.de