This study was part of the Master thesis of the candidate Mario Gorenjak who completed master program “Bioinformatics” and become first officially educated bioinformatics in Slovenia. Previously, no study programs existed in Slovenia that would deliver a degree in the field of bioinformatics. In this study we used bioinformatics tools for detailed “in silico” analysis of candidate loci reported in 16 independent genome wide association studies (GWAs) to be associated with Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We performed association analysis in Slovenian IBD patients and controls. .
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1630372Prof. dr. Uroš Potočnik was mentoring the research project performed by Karan Karkra, a student coming from foreign institution, who performed his research project within his Master Thesis at University of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine and defended his Master Thesis at University VIT, India. In this study we captured 213 different SNPs associated with IBD from 21 GWA studies and map SNPs to 115 different independent chromosomal loci. We found chromosome 1 (18 loci), chromosome 6 (11 loci) and chromosome 3 (10 loci) carrying highest number of independent loci, contributing to IBD.
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