Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic, idiopathic, relapsing disorders of unclear etiology affecting millions of people worldwide. Aberrant interactions between the human microbiota and immun
aCombined COPD genomewide association study (GWAS) according to Cho et al. [11]. bBonferroni correction for 3309 sputum expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs
We prospectively collected 118 salivary samples from 68 volunteers after obtaining informed consent. The subjects were divided into healthy controls (n = 31; people with no history of oral ulcers) and