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  • Title: Linkage analyses of chromosome 6 loci, including HLA, in familial aggregations of Crohn disease. G.E.T.A.I.D.
    Author: Hugot JP, Laurent-Puig P, Gower-Rousseau C, Caillat-Zucman S, Beaugerie L, Dupas JL, Van Gossum A, Bonäit-Pellie C, Cortot A, Thomas G.
    Journal: Am J Med Genet; 1994 Aug 15; 52(2):207-13. PubMed ID: 7802010.
    Abstract:
    Segregation analyses of familial aggregations of Crohn disease have provided consistent results pointing to the involvement of a predisposing gene with a recessive mode of inheritance. Although extensively investigated, the role played by human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genes in this inflammatory bowel disease remains elusive and the major histocompatibility complex is a candidate region for the mapping of the Crohn disease susceptibility gene. A total of 25 families with multiple cases of Crohn disease was genotyped for HLA DRB1 and for 16 highly polymorphic loci evenly distributed on chromosome 6. The data were subjected to linkage analysis using the lod score method. Neither individual nor combined lod scores for any family and for any locus tested reached values suggesting linkage or genetic heterogeneity. The Crohn disease predisposing locus was excluded from the whole chromosome 6 with lod scores less than -2. It was excluded from the major histocompatibility complex and from 91% of the chromosome 6 genetic map with lod scores less than -4. The major recessive gene involved in genetic predisposition to Crohn disease does not reside on the major histocompatibility complex nor on any locus mapping to chromosome 6.
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