Genome-Wide Copy Number Variation Scan Identifies Complement Component C4 as Novel Susceptibility Gene for Crohn's

Isabelle Cleynen1, Peter Konings, Caroline Robberecht

  • 1*Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, TARGID, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; †Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ‡iMinds Department of Medical Information Technologies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; §Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ‖Department of Gastroenterology, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium; ¶Erasmus Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Department of Gastroenterology, Brussels, Belgium; **Unit of Animal Genomics, Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Genoproteomique Appliquee (GIGA-R) and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; ††Division of Gastroenterology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Liege, Liège, Belgium; ‡‡Division of Gastroenterology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and §§Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bioinformatics-Statistical Genetics, Montefiore Institute, Universty of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
|November 24, 2015
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