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Correspondence: Miles Parkes, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Group, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom, miles.parkes@addenbrooks.nhs.uk, Tel.: +44 (0) 1223-216389, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 596213
AF, DPBM, GRS, TA, JL, RR, JB, TH, AL, CGM, NP, JIR, PS, YS, LS, KDT, DW, CW, GKU, JDR, MD’A, RW, SV, RHD, JS, SS, VA, HH were involved in establishing DNA collections, and/or assembling phenotypic data.
AF, DE, JCB, KW, TG, SR, CAA, LJ, MJD performed statistical analyses.
DPBM, GRS, CWL, EMF, RNB, MB, TMB, SB, CB, AC, J-FC, MC, SC, TD, MdV, RD’I, MD, CE, TF, DF, RG, JG, AVG, SLG, JH, DH, J-PH, DL, IL, ML, AL, CL, EL, CM, WN, JP, AP, DDP, MR, PR, JS, MS, FS, AHS, PCFS, SRT, LT, TW, SRB, RW, SK, AMG, JCM, SV, RHD, MSS, JS, SS, JHC, VA recruited patients.
AF, DPBM, TB, SB, KT, MG, GM supervised laboratory work.
AF, DPBM, JCB, KW, SB, RHD, JS, SS, JHC, MJD, MP contributed to writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript before submission.
We thank all subjects who contributed samples, and physicians and nursing staff who helped with recruitment globally.
We acknowledge the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. We thank the 1958 British Birth Cohort and Banco Nacional de ADN, Salamanca, Spain who supplied control DNA samples.
Other significant contributors: K. Hanigan, Z.-Z. Zhao, N. Huang, P. Webb, N. Hayward, A. Rutherford, R. Gwilliam, J. Ghori, D Strachan, W. McCardle, W. Ouwehand, M. Newsky, S. Ehlers, I. Pauselius, K. Holm, C. Sina, L. Baidoo, A. Andriulli and M.C. Renda
All authors declare no financial interest.
his study was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research through the National Genome Research Network and infrastructure support through the DFG cluster of excellence “Inflammation at Interfaces”.
Also the Italian Ministry for Health GR-2008-1144485, with case collections supported by the Italian Group for IBD and the Italian Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
We acknowledge funding provided by Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation; University of Queensland (Ferguson Fellowship); National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia and by the European Community (5th PCRDT) and by the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization.
UK case collections were supported by the National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s disease, Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council UK and Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter.
We also acknowledge the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre awards to Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust / King’s College London and to Addenbrooke’s Hospital / University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.
The NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium is funded by the following grants: DK062431 (S.R.B.), DK062422 (J.H.C.), DK062420 (R.H.D.), DK062432 & DK064869 (J.D.R.), DK062423 (M.S.S.), DK062413 (D.P.B.M.), DK76984 (MD), and DK084554 (MD and DPBM), and DK062429 (J.H.C.).
J.H.C. is also funded by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America; and SLG by DK069513 and Primary Children’s Medical Center Foundation.
edars Sinai supported by NCRR grant M01-RR00425; NIH/NIDDK grant P01-DK046763; DK 063491; and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Funds.
RW is supported by a clinical fellow grant (90700281) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; EL, DF and SV are senior clinical investigators for the Funds for Scientific Research (FWO/FNRS) Belgium.
SB was supported by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG; BR 1912/5-1).
JCB is supported by Wellcome Trust grant WT089120/Z/09/Z. Replication genotyping was supported by unrestricted grants from Abbott Laboratories Ltd and Giuliani SpA.
he CHS research reported in this article was supported by contract numbers N01-HC-85079 through N01-HC-85086, N01-HC-35129, N01 HC-15103, N01 HC-55222, N01-HC-75150, N01-HC-45133, grant numbers U01 HL080295 and R01 HL087652 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, with additional contribution from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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