Association of Crohn's disease-associated NOD2 variants with intestinal failure requiring small bowel transplantation and clinical outcomes

Gut

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 877-878

  Janse, M ^a   Weersma, R K ^a   Sudan, D L ^b   Festen, E A M ^a   Wijmenga, C ^a   Dijkstra, G ^a   Mercer, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROHN DISEASE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; NOD2 GENE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; NOD2 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; PROGNOSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955798221     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.196238     Document Type: Letter

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