Findings show a link between genetic risk and disease course severity in inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting shared factors.
Patients with higher genetic burden for developing IBD also experience a more severe disease course. For patients with CD this link was largely mediated by disease extent, however, this was not the case for UC, which suggests a shared genetic architecture between disease susceptibility and severity.
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