“…Among the UC susceptibility genes, HLA DRB1*0103 and the multidrug resistance gene 1 (MDR1/ABCB1) also contribute to clinical phenotype and natural history, being associated with extensive and severe disease [17,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. In CD, NOD2 gene mutations have repeatedly been shown to be associated with ileal disease, early age of onset, stricturing, and/or penetrating phenotype and increased need for surgery [5,9,10,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. Surprisingly, there are no studies focusing on potential genotype-phenotype associations between NOD2 mutations and UC, perhaps because it is not commonly considered a susceptibility gene for UC [5,10,50].…”