Chunk #51 — Disease association results — Crohn’s disease (CD)

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Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls.

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An emerging theme from molecular genetic studies of CD is the importance of defects in authophagy and the processing of phagocytosed bacteria. A number of other specific components within innate and adaptive immune pathways are also highlighted.