Dermot McGovern, MD, Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (IMAGE)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Dermot McGovern, MD, Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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In a retrospective study recently published in the journal Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that a combination of rare and common genetic variants in some IBD patients significantly increased their risk of developing clot-causing thromboembolic diseases.

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