Montreal Heart Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital researchers contribute to Crohn’s disease study
Twenty-one new genetic risk factors associated with Crohn’s disease have been discovered, more than doubling the amount of genetic information about the disease. An international consortium of Crohn’s disease researchers combined efforts, including major contributions from Canadian researchers — Dr. John D. Rioux from Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal and Drs. Mark Silverberg and Hillary Steinhart from Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto — to publish this breakthrough study in Nature Genetics.
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