STAT3 and inflammatory bowel disease: Moreover, 26 genes of the 75 IBD-risk genes found in our data set are shared between UC and CD (i.e., CARD9, SULT1A1, STAT3, GPR65, and IL12B), while 10 and 39 were restricted to UC or CD, respectively (Supplementary Fig. 5b and Supplementary Data set 7).