title: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, genetic susceptibility to Crohn's disease, and Sardinians: the way ahead.
abstract: The present study was performed to determine what proportion of people in Sardinia with or without Crohn's disease were infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and had a preponderance of allelic variants of Nod 2, an intracellular protein involved in Crohn's disease susceptibility. Genetic analysis of the alleles of the NOD 2/CARD 15 gene (ins C 3020, G 908 R, and R 702 W alleles), linked to susceptibility or genetic predisposition to Crohn's disease in humans, was carried out on specimens from 37 Crohn's disease patients and 34 patients without Crohn's disease. Our results show that more than 70 percent of people in Sardinia with Crohn's disease carry at least one of the susceptibility-associated NOD 2/CARD 15 alleles and were infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Microbiologia Sperimentale e Clinica, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Viale S. Pietro 43/B, 07100 Sassari, Italy. sechila@uniss.it
authors.forename: Leonardo A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Sechi
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gazouli
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ikonomopoulos
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lukas
authors.forename: Antonio M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Scanu
authors.forename: Niyaz
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fadda
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zanetti
mesh_terms: D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D016927:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D053473:Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein; D010283:Paratuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C429018:NOD2 protein, human; D053473:Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein