Crohn's disease incidence evolution in North-western Greece is not associated with alteration of NOD2/CARD15 variants

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 38, 2007, Pages 5116-5120

  Economou, Michael ^a   Filis, Grigoris ^a   Tsianou, Zoi ^a   Alamanos, John ^a   Kogevinas, Antonios ^a   Masalas, Kostas ^a   Petrou, Anna ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

CARD15; Crohn's disease; Epidemiology; Inflammatory bowel disease

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 34948831154     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i38.5116     Document Type: Article

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