Matthias C Reichert, Juozas Kupcinskas, Antje Schulz, Christoph Schramm, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Christoph Jüngst, Markus Casper, Frank Grünhage, Beate Appenrodt, Vincent Zimmer, Algimantas Tamelis, Jaune I Lukosiene, Neringa Pauziene, Gediminas Kiudelis, Laimas Jonaitis, Tobias Goeser, Maciej Malinowski, Matthias Glanemann, Limas Kupcinskas, Frank Lammert
Colonic diverticulosis is a very common condition. Many patients develop diverticulitis or other complications of diverticular disease. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consistently identified three major genetic susceptibility factors for both conditions, but did not discriminate diverticulititis and diverticulosis in particular due the limitations of registry-based approaches. Here, we aimed to confirm the role of the identified variants for diverticulosis and diverticulitis, respectively, within a well-phenotyped cohort of patients who underwent colonoscopy...
February 3, 2020: Scientific Reports