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ReviewMolecular biology reports2020

Inflammatory bowel disease: between genetics and microbiota.

Nour Younis, Rana Zarif, Rami Mahfouz

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Review in Molecular biology reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
12.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Inflammation-related polymorphisms IFNG-AS1 rs1558744 and CCAT2 rs6983267: Potential risk factors for ulcerative colitis.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nour YounisDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Cairo Street, Beirut, Lebanon.
Rana ZarifDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Cairo Street, Beirut, Lebanon.
Rami MahfouzDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Cairo Street, Beirut, Lebanon. rm11@aub.edu.lb.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0622-8191
American University of Beirut Medical Center · LB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract. It includes two main disorders: Crohn's disease (CD) and Ulcerative colitis (UC). CD and UC often share a similar clinical presentation; however, they affect distinct parts of the GI Tract with a different gut wall inflammatory extent. Ultimately, IBD seems to emanate from an uncontrollably continuous inflammatory process arising against the intestinal microbiome in a genetically susceptible individual. It is a multifactorial disease stemming from the impact of both environmental and genetic components on the intestinal microbiome. Furthermore, IBD genetics has gained a lot of attention. Around 200 loci were identified as imparting an increased risk for IBD. Few of them were heavily investigated and determined as highly linked to IBD. These genes, as discussed below, include NOD2, ATG16L1, IRGM, LRRK2, PTPN2, IL23R, Il10, Il10RA, Il10RB, CDH1 and HNF4α among others. Consequently, the incorporation of a genetic panel covering these key genes would markedly enhance the diagnosis and evaluation of IBD.

Indexed as

ColitisColitis, UlcerativeCrohn DiseaseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMicrobiotaBowelColitisCrohn’sGutInflammatoryMicrobiota

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PMID32086718
OpenAlexW3007820902

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