Differences in intestinal gene expression profiles

摘要

The invention provides a set of genes or gene sequences comprising at least two genes and the use of the set of genes or gene sequences for the determination of intestinal health and/or disease of an animal or a human. The invention further provides methods to detect the presence or absence of an intestinal disease in an animal or a human comprising measuring, in a sample of the animal or human, expression levels of a set of genes or gene sequences according to the invention, or a gene-specific fragment of the genes and comparing the expression levels with a reference value, such as the expression levels of the set of genes in a sample of intestinal tissue of a healthy animal or human.