Mendelian randomisation shows diverticular disease and irritable bowel syndrome increase the risk of haemorrhoidal disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Biotechnology, Life Science Centre, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ² Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
• ³ Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research (IGBR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Cagliari, Italy.
• ⁴ University of Groningen, Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, Casamassima, Italy damato@lum.it.
• ⁷ Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
• ⁸ Gastrointestinal Genetics Lab, CIC bioGUNE - BRTA, Derio, Spain.