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Crohn’s disease: ethnic variation in CARD15 genotypes
  1. S Marsh,
  2. H L McLeod
  1. Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, the Siteman Cancer Center, and the CREATE Pharmacogenetic Research Network, St Louis, MO, USA
  1. Correspondence to:
    H L McLeod, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8069, St Louis, MO 63110-1093 USA;
    hmcleod{at}im.wustl.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.52.5.770

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    Crohn’s disease shows significant variability in incidence between different world populations. For example, Kurata and colleagues1 studied the annual incidence of Crohn’s disease in Caucasian, African, Asian, and Hispanic individuals, with an observed range from 43.6 per 100 000 population for Caucasian, 29.8 for African, 5.6 for Asian, and 4.1 for Hispanics. Recently, a genetic …

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