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Nutrients 2012, 4, 1247-1259; doi:10.3390/nu4091247 OPEN ACCESS nutrients ISSN 2072-6643 /journal/nutrients Article Selenium, Selenoprotein Genes and Crohn’s Disease in a Case-Control Population from Auckland, New Zealand Liljana Gentschew 1, Karen S. Bishop 2, Dug Yeo Han 1,3, Angharad R. Morgan 3, Alan G. Fraser 3,4, Wen Jiun Lam 1,3, Nishi Karunasinghe 2, Bobbi Campbell 1 and Lynnette R. Ferguson 1,2,3,* 1 Discipline of Nutrition, FMHS, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand; E-Mails: l.gentschew@ikmb.uni-kiel.de (L.G.); dy.han@auckland.ac.nz (D.Y.H.); w.lam@auckland.ac.nz (W.J.L.); b.campbell@auckland.ac.nz (B.C.) 2 Auckland Cancer Society Research Center, FMHS, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand; E-Mails: k.bishop@auckland.ac.nz (K.S.B.); n.karunasinghe@auckland.ac.nz (N.K.) 3 Nutrigenomics New Zealand, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand; E-Mails: angharad_r_morgan@ (A.R.M.); a.fraser@auckland.ac.nz (A.G.F.) 4 Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: l.ferguson@auckland.ac.nz; Tel.: +64-9-9236372; Fax: +64-9-3035962. Received: 13 July 2012; in revised form: 23 August 2012 / Accepted: 27 August 2012 / Published: 7 September 2012 Abstract: New Zealand has one of the highest incidence rates of Crohn’s Disease (CD), whilst the serum selenium status of New Zealanders is amongst the lowest in the world. A prospective cas