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SUBMITTER: Choe EK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517584 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190514 1
Diverticulosis results from complex interactions related to aging, environmental factors and genetic predisposition. Despite epidemiologic evidence of genetic risk factors, there has been no attempt to identify genes that confer susceptibility to colonic diverticulosis. We performed the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) on susceptibility to diverticulosis in a Korean population. A GWAS was carried out in 7,948 healthy individuals: 893 patients and 1,075 controls comprised the test set, ...[more]