Genetic determinants of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: Is age of onset genetically determined?

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 236-239

  Scherr, Rebecca ^a   Essers, Jonah ^b   Hakonarson, Hakon ^c   Kugathasan, Subra ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Genome wide association studies; Inflammatory bowel disease

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN PSMG1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR SUPERFAMILY MEMBER 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERITIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES;

EID: 70349910628     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000228555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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