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    Genotype-phenotype analysis of the Crohn's disease susceptibility haplotype on chromosome 5q31
    (British Medical Assosiation, 2003) Armuzzi, A.; Ahamad, T.; Ling, K. L.; de Silva, A.; Cullen, S.; van Heel, D.; Orchard, T. R.; Welsh, K. I.; Marshall, S. E.; Jewell, D. P.
    BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Recent molecular data suggest that genetic factors may underlie the disease heterogeneity observed in both ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). A locus on chromosome 5q has been implicated in susceptibility to CD, and recently refined by linkage disequilibrium mapping to a conserved 250 kb haplotype (5q31). No data regarding the contribution of this locus to clinical phenotype exist. In this case control study, we investigated the contribution of this haplotype to both susceptibility and phenotype of CD and UC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 330 Caucasian CD and 457 UC patients recruited from a single UK centre. Association with disease susceptibility and phenotype was analysed with haplotypes reconstructed from three single nucleotide polymorphisms chosen to span thissusceptibility region. Evidence for possible genetic epistasis between IBD5 and NOD2/CARD15 was sought. RESULTS: Linkage disequilibrium across this region was confirmed, with two haplotypes comprising 88% of all chromosomes. Susceptibility to CD, but not to UC, was associated with homozygosity for a common haplotype, H2 (p(c)=0.002; relative risk (RR) 2.0). Genotype-phenotype analyses demonstrated that this association was particularly strong in patients with perianal disease (p(c)=0.0005; RR 1.7), especially in individuals homozygous for this haplotype (p(c)=0.0005; RR 3.0). Importantly, no association with H2 was found in 186 patients without perianal disease. No evidence of epistasis between IBD5 and NOD2/CARD15 was demonstrated. CONCLUSIONS: The IBD5 risk haplotype is associated with CD only. Genotype-phenotype analysis reveals that the strongest association is observed in patients with perianal CD. While the precise gene involved is unclear, these data provide further molecular evidence for a genetic basis of the clinical heterogeneity of CD.
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    The Molecular classification of the clinical manifestations of Crohn's Disease.
    (Elsevier-W.B. Saunders, 2002) Ahamad, T.; Armuzzi, A.; Bunce, M.; Mulcahy-Hawes, K.; Marshall, S.E.; Orchard, T.R.; Crawshaw, J.; Large, O.; de Silva, A.; Cook, J.T.; Barnardo, M.; Cullen, S.; Welsh, K.I.; Jewell, D.P.
    BACKGROUND & AIMS: Crohn's disease is a common inflammatory disorder of the gut characterized by variation in both location and behavior. Chromosome 16 and the HLA region on chromosome 6 have been implicated in susceptibility to disease. Mutations in the NOD2/CARD15 gene, recently identified on chromosome 16, have been associated with disease overall but are found in only 25% of patients. No data regarding their contribution to specific disease subtypes exist. Here we report a detailed genotype-phenotype analysis of 244 accurately characterized patients. METHODS: A total of 244 white patients with Crohn's disease recruited from a single center in the United Kingdom were studied. All patients were rigorously phenotyped and followed-up for a median time of 16 years. By using linkage disequilibrium mapping we studied 340 polymorphisms in 24 HLA genes and 3 NOD2/CARD15 polymorphisms. RESULTS: We show that NOD2/CARD15 mutations determine ileal disease only. We confirm that alleles on specific long-range HLA haplotypes determine overall susceptibility and describe novel genetic associations with susceptibility, location, and behavior of Crohn's disease. CONCLUSIONS: The clinical pattern of Crohn's disease may be defined by specific genotypes. This study may provide the basis for a future molecular classification of disease.