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Musings on genome medicine: Crohn's disease

David G Nathan* and Stuart H Orkin

Author Affiliations

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA


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Genome Medicine 2009, 1:103 doi:10.1186/gm103

Published: 5 November 2009

Abstract

The inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, pose a fascinating challenge to specialists in gastroenterology, infectious diseases, immunology and genetics and an often crushing burden to patients and their families.