Linking crohn's disease and ankylosing spondylitis: It's all about genes!

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Elewaut, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 23 RECEPTOR; KINESIN 2; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TH17 CELL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 78650697935     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001223     Document Type: Article

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