Directly from Denmark: Researchers Find Biomarker Tied to Severity of Ulcerative Colitis

For patients with ulcerative colitis, the HLA-DRB1*01:03 allele is associated with severe ulcerative colitis, according to a research letter published online Oct. 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the United European Gastroenterology Week, held from Oct. 12 to 15 in Vienna.

Marie Vibeke Vestergaard, from Aalborg University in Denmark, and colleagues conducted a Danish nationwide genome-wide association study on severe versus less severe ulcerative colitis to identify biomarkers using data from a combined cohort of 4,491 patients (4,153 from the neonatal blood spot cohort [NBS] and 338 from the North Denmark Biobank study [NorDIBD]).

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