[This region of the MHC has been implicated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) pathogenesis by recent association mapping studies and this study was performed to examine the prevalence of MICA gene polymorphisms in IBD, in particular in type 2 peripheral arthropathy (PeA), which also has a strong HLA-B association.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE