Article
[Genetic etiology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease].
Der Internist - 1 Feb 2014
Schreiber S, Rosenstiel P, Franke A
Abstract excerpt
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammatory bowel diseases have a life time prevalence of up to 1 % in western industrialized countries. It is generally proposed that genetic susceptibility, which is much more widespread in the population, needs (unknown) factors in lifestyle in order to lead to disease manifestation. Systematic genome-wide association...
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