Background: Inflammatory bowel disease is the result of both genes and environment.
Canadian First Nations people, despite living in a region with a high prevalence of …

Background Crohn's disease (CD) is highly heritable. NOD2 has emerged as the main
susceptibility gene among individuals of European ancestry; however, NOD2 does not …

Background Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) result from an interaction between genetic
and environmental factors. Preliminary findings suggest that susceptibility genes differ …

OBJECTIVES: Phenotype characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may differ
significantly among ethnic subpopulations. The aim of this study was to characterize the IBD …

Background Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), the two main types of
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are multifactorial conditions of unknown etiology. The …

The influence of ancestry on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) susceptibility has recently
been examined via several large-scale genome-wide association studies, 1, 2 but the effects …

Background & Aims The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) ulcerative colitis (UC) and
Crohn's disease (CD) cause significant morbidity and are increasing in prevalence among …

OBJECTIVES: Hispanics represent an understudied inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
population. Prior studies examining genetic predisposition to IBD in Hispanics are limited. In …

Background & Aims Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has familial aggregation in African
Americans (AAs), but little is known about the molecular genetic susceptibility. Mapping …

The Puerto Rico population may be modeled as an admixed population with contributions
from three continents: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ancient America, and Europe. Extending the …