[Genetics and environment in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases].

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Inflammatory bowel diseases are both environmental and genetic illnesses. More than one hundred genes or loci involved in the regulation of innate or acquired immune response as well as intestinal mucosa homeostasis have been identified. Environmental studies have been less numerous up to now and only smoking and appendectomy have been validated, as protector for ulcerative colitis, while smoking is clearly...

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