Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Clinical and Molecular Genetics

Pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by distinct phenotypic differences compared to adult-onset IBD. This raises the question whether early (pediatric) onset IBD represents the same disease process occurring in adults but merely at an earlier age or does IBD in children have a very different etiology and pathogenesis but with the same clinical presentation as adults. The use of techniques such as whole genome association studies to perform broad, unbiased screening for the contributions of common genetic variations to complex disease has rapidly assisted in the identification of several novel susceptibility loci associated with pediatric-onset Crohn’s disease such as IL23R and ATG16L1. These genes join the already confirmed IBD susceptibility genes such as NOD2/CARD15, IBD5, and DLG5. Therefore, there is hope that advances in the field of clinical and molecular genetics will assist in answering the fundamental question of whether pediatric IBD has a different etiology and pathogenesis compared to adult IBD. This review examines the current status of clinical and molecular genetics of pediatric IBD, and highlights the differences between pediatric and adult IBD in disease phenotypes and genotypes. Finally, the future directions of genetic investigations in pediatric IBD are discussed. (Inflamm Bowel Dis 2007;13:1430–1438)

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