Table 2.
Analysis of phenotypic characteristics of Crohn’s disease patients according to nucleotide-binding oligomerisation domain 2/caspase recruitment domains 15 gene status1
| Characteristics | 3020insC mutation positive (n = 4) | 3020insC mutation negative (n = 26) |
| Disease behaviour | ||
| Perforating | 1 | 5 |
| Stricturing | 4 | 14 |
| Inflammatory | 3 | 7 |
| Location of CD lesions | ||
| Small bowel | 4 | 7 |
| Ileocaecal | 6 | 19 |
| Colonic | 1 | 7 |
| Anorectal | 1 | 1 |
| Others | 0 | 0 |
| No of locations involved | ||
| 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 4+ | 0 | 0 |
| Extraintestinal manifestations | 0 | 3 |
1Some patients had more than one clinical variable. CD: Crohn’s disease.