Therefore, we tested the effects of the diverticular disease variants at the ARHGAP15, COLQ and FAM155A loci on other inflammatory diseases of intestine and colon, namely ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) (inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)) and found no association with a P<1 × 10−3. Here, ARHGAP15 is linked to diverticular disease.