Invited commentary: Clues to the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease - A return to John Snow?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 164, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 624-626

  Moayyedi, Paul ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; CANADA; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCOME; INTESTINE FLORA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; SOCIAL STATUS; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 33749001712     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj261     Document Type: Note

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