[No association was found for any of the MICA alleles independently of DQ genes, whereas TNF-alpha-308 A allele was slightly overrepresented on chromosomes carried by CD patients compared with control chromosomes, indicating that either TNF-alpha, or another gene in linkage disequilibrium with it, could confer increased susceptibility to CD.]. 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