IRF5 promoter methylation in association to disease state was assessed in 87 proband (49 healthy, 18 Crohn's disease, 20 ulcerative colitis) PBL samples.
Twelve polymorphisms in the CREM, STAT4, STAT5a, Stat5b, and IRF5 genes were genotyped in a cohort of 107 IBD patients (39 Crohn's disease [CD] and 68 ulcerative colitis [UC]) and 162 controls from southern Tunisia.
We confirmed the associations of 10 known UC risk loci in Koreans: rs76418789 in IL23R (combined P = 1.25 × 10), rs4728142 in IRF5 (combined P = 3.17 × 10), rs1830610 near JAK2 (combined P = 2.28 × 10), rs1555791 near TNFRSF14 (combined P = 1.62 × 10), rs880790 between IL10-IL19 (combined P = 3.73 × 10), rs10185424 between IL1R2-IL1R1 (combined P = 1.54 × 10), rs6478108 in TNFSF15 (combined P = 9.28 × 10), rs861857 between UBE2L3-YDJC (combined P = 3.05 × 10), rs1801274 in FCGR2A (discovery P = 1.54 × 10), and rs17085007 between GPR12-USP12 (discovery P = 3.64 × 10).