Mayo Clinic discovers new genetic candidates for irritable bowel syndrome
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 08:37
in Health & Medicine
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Most people associate serotonin with brain neurology, but over 95 percent of the body's serotonin occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, which has a complex neuronal circuit that has been called "the second brain" of the body. Now a Mayo Clinic research team has identified a number of genetic variants in serotonin genes that impact irritable bowel syndrome or IBS.