Twin Brothers and a Sister With CD: A Case Report

Crohn’s disease (CD) has an unknown etiology, but it has a genetic component. Many cases of familial CD have been reported. We describe a Kosovar Albanian family with 6 children, of whom 3 have CD: monozygotic twins and their sister. As far as we know, this is the first such report of CD within a Ko...

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Autores principales: Telaku, Skender, Veliu, Arber, Sina, Marsela, Telaku, Mimoza, Fejza, Hajrullah, Alidema, Fitim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9452804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36091422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476221123537
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author Telaku, Skender
Veliu, Arber
Sina, Marsela
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Fejza, Hajrullah
Alidema, Fitim
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description Crohn’s disease (CD) has an unknown etiology, but it has a genetic component. Many cases of familial CD have been reported. We describe a Kosovar Albanian family with 6 children, of whom 3 have CD: monozygotic twins and their sister. As far as we know, this is the first such report of CD within a Kosovar family.
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spelling pubmed-94528042022-09-09 Twin Brothers and a Sister With CD: A Case Report Telaku, Skender Veliu, Arber Sina, Marsela Telaku, Mimoza Fejza, Hajrullah Alidema, Fitim Clin Med Insights Case Rep Case Report Crohn’s disease (CD) has an unknown etiology, but it has a genetic component. Many cases of familial CD have been reported. We describe a Kosovar Albanian family with 6 children, of whom 3 have CD: monozygotic twins and their sister. As far as we know, this is the first such report of CD within a Kosovar family. SAGE Publications 2022-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9452804/ /pubmed/36091422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476221123537 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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