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Nature Genetics 14, 199–202 (1 October 1996) | doi:10.1038/ng1096-199

Two stage genome|[ndash]|wide search in inflammatory bowel disease provides evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosomes 3, 7 and 12

Jack Satsangi , Miles Parkes , Edouard Louis , Lara Hashimoto , Norihiro Kato , Ken Welsh , Joseph D. Terwilliger , G. Mark Lathrop , John I. Bell & Derek P. Jewell

Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), the chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (CIBD), are common causes of gastro-intestinal disease in the Western world, with a combined prevalence of 100–200/100,000 (ref. 1).