TRAF6 and eosinophilic gastroenteritis: Eosinophilic gastroenteritis patients with different duration of symptoms before diagnosis had different levels of expression of TRAF6 in the intestinal tissues (P  = .011 < .05) (Table 4); among which, patients with a disease course over half a year had a significantly lower level of TRAF6 expression than those with a disease course less than 2 weeks (P = .028 < .05)(Table 5).