Article
Very early-onset inflammatory bowel disease: gaining insight through focused discovery.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 May 2015
Moran Christopher J, Klein Christoph, Muise Aleixo M, Snapper Scott B
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenesis of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is only partially understood. Strong evidence implicates a strong genetic component including high monozygotic twin concordance and familial disease phenotype concordance rates. Genome-wide association studies have identified associations between >160 genetic loci and the risk for developing IBD. The roles of implicated genes are largely...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Translational Research, Biomedical
