Clinical Research
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World J Gastroenterol. Jul 21, 2005; 11(27): 4188-4193
Published online Jul 21, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i27.4188
Association of polymorphic alleles of CTLA4 with inflammatory bowel disease in the Japanese
Haruhisa Machida, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Chun-Yang Wen, Yukiko Narumi, Saburou Shikuwa, Hajime Isomoto, Fuminao Takeshima, Yohei Mizuta, Norio Niikawa, Ikuo Murata, Shigeru Kohno
Haruhisa Machida, Hajime Isomoto, Yohei Mizuta, Fuminao Takeshima, Shigeru Kohno, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Yukiko Narumi, Ikuo Murata, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Chun-Yang Wen, Department of Molecular Pathology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
Saburou Shikuwa, Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, 2-1001-1 Kubara, Omura 856-8562, Japan
Norio Niikawa, Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
Author contributions: All authors contributed equally to the work.
Correspondence to: Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, MD, PhD, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan. ktsuka@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
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Received: November 4, 2004
Revised: November 20, 2004
Accepted: November 23, 2004
Published online: July 21, 2005
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