Article
Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: clinical and molecular genetics.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Nov 2007
Biank Vincent, Broeckel Ulrich, Kugathasan Subra
Abstract excerpt
Pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by distinct phenotypic differences compared to adult-onset IBD. This raises the question whether early (pediatric) onset IBD represents the same disease process occurring in adults but merely at an earlier age or does IBD in children have a very different etiology and pathogenesis but with the same clinical presentation as adults. The use of...
Topics
- Child
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Immunity
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Membrane Proteins
- Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein
- Organic Cation Transport Proteins
- Solute Carrier Family 22 Member 5
- Symporters
- Tumor Suppressor Proteins