The association between environmental exposures during childhood and the subsequent development of Crohn’s disease: A score analysis approach

• Victor Tinashe Sabe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victor Tinashe Sabe, Abigail Raffner Basson

  * E-mail: vt.sabe@gmail.com

  Affiliation Medical BioScience Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7294-9352

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• Abigail Raffner Basson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victor Tinashe Sabe, Abigail Raffner Basson

  Affiliations Medical BioScience Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa, Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Cominelli Laboratory, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Esme Jordaan ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Parow, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Mikateko Mazinu

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Parow, Western Cape, South Africa and the Statistics and Population Studies Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa

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