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Dietary intake and periodontal health: Evidence from a Mendelian randomization analysis [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
Objective This study aimed to systematically examine the causal relationships between 19 common dietary factors and the risk of periodontal disease, thereby providing reliable evidence for targeted nutritional interventions.
Fulin Yan, Yongji Feng, Xin Dai, Hui Li
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COVID-19 is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease death: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
ObjectiveThis study aimed to estimate the causal effects of Coronavirus disease 2019 susceptibility and hospitalization on cardiovascular disease death using two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis.MethodsWe used statistics from a genome-wide ...
Jia-peng Miao, Xiao-yu Gu, Rui-zheng Shi
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Causal relationship between obesity and iron deficiency anemia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundObservational studies have suggested an association between obesity and iron deficiency anemia, but such studies are susceptible to reverse causation and residual confounding.
Tingting Wang, Qi Gao, Yuanyuan Yao, Ge Luo, Tao Lv, Guangxin Xu, Mingxia Liu, Jingpin Xu, Xuejie Li, Dawei Sun, Zhenzhen Cheng, Ying Wang, Chaomin Wu, Ruiyu Wang, Jingcheng Zou, Min Yan   +15 more
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Investigating the causal impact of gut microbiota on glioblastoma: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

BMC Genomics, 2023
Background Currently, the influence of microbiota on the occurrence, progression, and treatment of cancer is a topic of considerable research interest. Therefore, based on the theory of the gut-brain axis proved by previous studies, our objective was to ...
Chuan Zeng, Chaolong Zhang, Chunming He, Haimin Song   +3 more
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MendelianRandomization v0.5.0: updates to an R package for performing Mendelian randomization analyses using summarized data [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
The MendelianRandomization package is a software package written for the R software environment that implements methods for Mendelian randomization based on summarized data. In this manuscript, we describe functions that have been added to the package or
Jim R. Broadbent, Christopher N. Foley, Andrew J. Grant, Amy M. Mason, James R. Staley, Stephen Burgess   +5 more
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Genome-wide and Mendelian randomisation studies of liver MRI yield insights into the pathogenesis of steatohepatitis [PDF]

, 2020
Background A non-invasive method to grade the severity of steatohepatitis and liver fibrosis is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based corrected T1 (cT1).
Banerjee, R, Banerjee, R, Bell, J.D., Bell, J.D., Hemingway, H., Hemingway, H., Hingorani, A.D., Hingorani, A.D., Kelly, M., Kelly, M., McGonigle, J., McGonigle, J., Neubauer, S., Neubauer, S., Nicholls, R.C., Nicholls, R.C., Parisinos, C.A., Parisinos, C.A., Patel, R.S., Patel, R.S., Thomas, E.L., Thomas, E.L., Wilman, H., Wilman, H., Yaghootkar, H., Yaghootkar, H.   +25 more
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Effects of epigenetic age acceleration on kidney function: a Mendelian randomization study

Clinical Epigenetics, 2023
Background Previous studies have reported cross-sectional associations between measures of epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) and kidney function phenotypes. However, the temporal and potentially causal relationships between these variables remain unclear.
Yang Pan, Xiao Sun, Zhijie Huang, Ruiyuan Zhang, Changwei Li, Amanda H. Anderson, James P. Lash, Tanika N. Kelly   +7 more
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Mendelian randomization shows a causal effect of low vitamin D on multiple sclerosis risk. [PDF]

, 2016
ObjectiveWe sought to estimate the causal effect of low serum 25(OH)D on multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility that is not confounded by environmental or lifestyle factors or subject to reverse causality.MethodsWe conducted mendelian randomization (MR ...
Alfredsson, Lars, Barcellos, Lisa F, Bäärnhielm, Maria, Gianfrancesco, Milena, Glymour, M Maria, Gyllenberg, Alexandra, Hedström, Anna Karin, Hillert, Jan, Kockum, Ingrid, Link, Jenny, Mok, Amanda, Olsson, Tomas, Quach, Hong, Rhead, Brooke, Schaefer, Catherine, Shao, Xiaorong, Shen, Ling   +16 more
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Graphical analysis for phenome-wide causal discovery in genotyped population-scale biobanks

Nature Communications, 2021
Mendelian randomization is a popular method to detect causal relationships between traits, but can be confounded by instances of horizontal pleiotropy. Here, the authors present a Mendelian randomization workflow which includes causal discovery analysis ...
David Amar, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Euan A. Ashley, Manuel A. Rivas   +3 more
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Shared genetic contribution of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: Implications for prognosis and treatment [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose of Review: The increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is well established. This review collates the available evidence and assesses the shared genetic background between T2D and CVD: the causal ...
Strawbridge, Rona J., van Zuydam, Natalie R.   +1 more
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