Familial Crohn's disease in Belgium: Pedigrees, temporal relationships among cases, and family histories

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 583-590

  Van Kruiningen, Herbert J ^a   Joossens, Marie ^b   Vermeire, Severine ^b   Joossens, Sofie ^b   Debeugny, Stéphane ^c   Gower Rousseau, Corinne ^c   Cortot, Antoine ^c   Colombel, Jean Frédéric ^c   Rutgeerts, Paul ^b   Vlietinck, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Clusterings; Crohn's disease; Families; Inflammatory bowel disease; Sibships

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SIBLING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BELGIUM; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; SIBLINGS;

EID: 34250781086     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3180644d3c     Document Type: Article

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