Defining gene-lifestyle interactions in inflammatory bowel disease: progress towards understanding disease pathogenesis

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ² Department of Gastroenterology, Central South University Third Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• ³ Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁴ Gastroenterology and Hepatology, KU Leuven University Hospitals Leuven Gasthuisberg Campus Hospital Pharmacy, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁶ Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁷ Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁸ School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China xue.li@ed.ac.uk.
• ⁹ Translational Gastro-Intestinal Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.