Genetics of Crohn disease, an archetypal inflammatory barrier disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 376-388

  Schreiber, Stefan ^a   Rosenstiel, Philip ^a   Albrecht, Mario ^b   Hampe, Jochen ^a   Krawczak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CROHN DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; SKIN;

EID: 17744373329     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1607     Document Type: Review

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