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The role of monogenic disease in children with very early onset inflammatory bowel disease.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Oct 2017
Kelsen Judith R, Baldassano Robert N
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multifactorial disease caused by dysregulated immune responses to commensal or pathogenic intestinal microbes, resulting in chronic intestinal inflammation. Patients diagnosed with IBD occurring before the age of 5 are a unique population, known as very early onset (VEO)-IBD and can be phenotypically and genetically distinct from older-onset IBD. We aim to...
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