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The Search for Causative Environmental Factors in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2000
Rogler Gerhard, Zeitz Jonas, Biedermann Luc
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has become a 'prototype disease' for chronic auto-inflammatory disorders with a polygenic background and important multifaceted environmental trigger components. The environmental factors contribute both to pathogenesis and disease flares. Thus, IBD is a disease par excellence to study the interactions between host genetics, environmental factors (such as infections or smoking)...
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