Functional Gastrointestinal Disease: Has the Genomic Era Arrived?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1193-1195

  Quigley, Eamonn M M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSPEPSIA; EDITORIAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1842479072     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.02.028     Document Type: Editorial

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