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World J Gastroenterol. Aug 21, 2005; 11(31): 4833-4837
Published online Aug 21, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i31.4833
Published online Aug 21, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i31.4833
Crohn’s disease in Japanese is associated with a SNP-haplotype of N-acetyltransferase 2 gene
Haruhisa Machida, Hajime Isomoto, Yohei Mizuta, Fuminao Takeshima, Kunihiko Murase, Shigeru Kohno, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Ikuo Murata, Department of Pharmaco-therapeutics, 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
Chen-Yang Wen, Department of Digestive Disease, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, China
Saburou Shikuwa, Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, 2-1001-1 Kubara, Omura 856-8562, Japan
Naomichi Matsumoto, Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Naomichi Matsumoto, CREST, JST, Kawaguchi, 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: December 20, 2004
Revised: December 23, 2004
Accepted: December 30, 2004
Published online: August 21, 2005
Revised: December 23, 2004
Accepted: December 30, 2004
Published online: August 21, 2005
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