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Comment
. 2019 May;68(5):769-770.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318231. Epub 2019 Mar 2.

Diverticular disease: picking pockets and population biobanks

Rinse K Weersma  1 , Miles Parkes  2
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Comment

Diverticular disease: picking pockets and population biobanks

Rinse K Weersma et al. Gut. 2019 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: diverticular disease; genetics.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: RKW received unrestricted research grants from and has acted as consultant for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. MP has received speaker honoraria from Takeda.

Comment on

  • Genome-wide association analysis of diverticular disease points towards neuromuscular, connective tissue and epithelial pathomechanisms.
    Schafmayer C, Harrison JW, Buch S, Lange C, Reichert MC, Hofer P, Cossais F, Kupcinskas J, von Schönfels W, Schniewind B, Kruis W, Tepel J, Zobel M, Rosendahl J, Jacobi T, Walther-Berends A, Schroeder M, Vogel I, Sergeev P, Boedeker H, Hinrichsen H, Volk A, Erk JU, Burmeister G, Hendricks A, Hinz S, Wolff S, Böttner M, Wood AR, Tyrrell J, Beaumont RN, Langheinrich M, Kucharzik T, Brezina S, Huber-Schönauer U, Pietsch L, Noack LS, Brosch M, Herrmann A, Thangapandi RV, Schimming HW, Zeissig S, Palm S, Focke G, Andreasson A, Schmidt PT, Weitz J, Krawczak M, Völzke H, Leeb G, Michl P, Lieb W, Grützmann R, Franke A, Lammert F, Becker T, Kupcinskas L, D'Amato M, Wedel T, Datz C, Gsur A, Weedon MN, Hampe J. Schafmayer C, et al. Gut. 2019 May;68(5):854-865. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317619. Epub 2019 Jan 19. Gut. 2019. PMID: 30661054

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