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Genes and Environment: How Will Our Concepts on the Pathophysiology of IBD Develop in the Future?
1 Jan 2010
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has long been known to arise from the interplay between host and environmental factors. From this, a picture is currently emerging in which IBD is likely the result of a continuum of diseases that range from mono- and oligogenically inherited familial forms at one extreme to sporadic forms at the other extreme, which are polygenic in origin and strongly influenced by environmental...
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