Article
Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 gene associations with immunologic subsets of inflammatory bowel disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 Aug 1995
Yang H, Vora D K, Targan S R, Toyoda H, Beaudet A L, Rotter J I
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Inflammatory bowel disease is characterized by a failure to down-regulate the usual self-limited gut inflammatory response, suggesting that one or more of the predisposing genes could be those that determine the level of the immune response along the inflammatory pathway. The a...
Topics
- Alleles
- Antibodies, Antinuclear
- Case-Control Studies
- Codon
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Crohn Disease
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Neutrophils
- Polymorphism, Genetic