Analysis of Systemic Epigenetic Alterations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Defining Geographical, Genetic and Immune-Inflammatory influences on the Circulating Methylome.

"Conflict of Interest R. Kalla Financial support for research: EC IBD-Character, Lecture fee[s]: Ferring, N. Kennedy Financial support for research: Wellcome Trust, Conflict with: Abbvie, MSD, Warner Chilcott, Ferring speaker fees. Shire Travel bursary, A. Adams: none declared, J. Satsangi Financial support for research: EC grant IBD-BIOM,IBD-Character, Wellcome, CSO, MRC, Conflict with: Consultant for: Takeda, Conflict with: MSD speaker fees. Shire travelling expenses"

"Funding The study was funded by the following European Commission FP7 grant: IBD-CHARACTER [contract no. 2858546]. NAK was funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant no. WT097943MA]. IBD-Character Consortium: Erik Andersson, Ian D. Arnott, MD, Monica Bayes, PhD, Ferdinando Bonfiglio, PhD, Ray K. Boyapati, MD, Adam Carstens, MD, Christina Casén, MSc, Ewa Ciemniejewska, MSc, Mauro D’Amato, PhD, Fredrik A. Dahl, PhD, Trond Espen Detlie, MD, Hazel E. Drummond, BSc, Gunn S. Ekeland, MSc, Daniel Ekman, MSc, Anna B. Frengen, PhD, Mats Gullberg, PhD, Ivo G. Gut, PhD, Marta Gut, PhD, Simon C. Heath, PhD, Fredrik Hjelm, PhD, Henrik Hjortswang, MD, PhD, Gwo-Tzer Ho, PhD, Daisy Jonkers, PhD, Nicholas A. Kennedy, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Charles W. Lees, PhD, Torbjørn Lindahl, MSc, Mårten Lindqvist, PhD, Angelika Merkel, PhD, Eddie Modig, BSc, Aina E. F. Moen, PhD, Hilde Nilsen, PhD, Elaine R. Nimmo, PhD, Colin L. Noble, MD, Niklas Nordberg, PhD, Kate R. O’Leary, MSc, Anette Ocklind, PhD, Christine Olbjørn, MD, Erik Pettersson, PhD, Marieke Pierik, MD, PhD, Dominique Poncelet, PhD, Dirk Repsilber, PhD, Céline Sabatel, PhD, Renaud Schoemans, PhD, Alan G. Shand, MD, Johan D. Söderholm, MD, PhD, Janne Sølvernes, MS, Mikael Sundell, BSc, Tone M. Tannæs, PhD, Leif Törkvist, MD, PhD, Anne-Clémence Veillard, PhD, Nicholas T Ventham, MRCS[Eng] PhD, MBBS, David C. Wilson, MD, MRCPCH, Panpan You, MS."