TY - BOOK AU - Yomna Mohamed Farag AU - Hala Fathi Shibah , AU - Mortada Hassan Elshabrawi , AU - Samia Salah Eldeen Mahmoud , TI - Detection of MEFV- gene mutations in Egyptial children with inflammatory bowel disease / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yomna Mohamed Farag , KW - IBD-FMF KW - Indeterminate colitis KW - MEFV gene N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - IBD and FMF share common clinical and biological features. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of MEFV gene mutation in IBD patients and to characterize FMF-IBD patients. It enrolled 17 patients with UC, 15 with CD, 10 with IC and 33 controls. All cases were screened for 12 MEFV gene mutations. 88.1% of the IBD patients carried the mutation versus 42.4% control cases UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -