Genes may go some way towards explaining why a common but poorly understood gut disorder - irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - is often linked to anxiety, say researchers. They hope their discovery will stop IBS being wrongly labelled as an emotional state or “all in the mind”. The team studied more than 50,000 individuals with IBS, comparing their DNA with that of healthy people. The results are published in the journal Nature Genetics. IBS is thought to affect about one in 10 people and can cause distressing abdominal pain, bloating and bouts of constipation, diarrhoea or both
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