Analysis of Australian Crohn's disease pedigrees refines the localization for susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease on chromosome 16

J. A. Cavanaugh, D. F. Callen, S. R. Wilson, P. M. Stanford, M. E. Sraml, M. Gorska, J. Crawford, S. A. Whitmore, C. Shlegel, S. Foote, M. Kohonen-Corish, P. Pavli

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    Abstract

    A number of localizations for the putative susceptibility gene(s) have been identified for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In a genome wide scan, Hugot et al, (1996) identified a region on chromosome 16 which appeared to be responsible for the inheritance of inflammatory bowel disease in a small proportion of families. Subsequent work has suggested that this localization is important for susceptibility to Crohn's disease rather than ulcerative colitis. We investigated the contribution of this localization to the inheritance of inflammatory bowel disease in 54 multiplex Australian families, and confirmed its importance in a significant proportion of Crohn's disease families; we further refined the localization to a region near to D16S409, obtaining a maximum LOD score of 6.3 between D16S409 and D16S753.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)291-298
    Number of pages8
    JournalAnnals of Human Genetics
    Volume62
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1998

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