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Yadav P, Ellinghaus D, Rémy G, et al. Genetic factors interact with tobacco smoke to modify risk for inflammatory bowel disease in humans and mice. Gastroenterology 2017;153:550–565.
The relationship between smoking and IBD risk is unclear. Gene–smoking interactions in IBD were explored at a genome-wide level in this paper using data from the International IBD Genetics Consortium. Immunochip custom array data from 20 000 IBD cases were compared with control cases in a meta-analysis of smokers versus non-smokers. Sixty-four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified for which the associated risk of IBD was affected by smoking. Nearly half of these SNPs were close to SNPs known to be related to IBD, and many were located near genes linked with mucosal barrier regulation and immune response. Twenty SNPs were within the human leucocyte antigen region at 6p21, so the effect on...
Publisher URL: http://gut.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/66/12/2189
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-315354
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