Assessing the causal association between smoking behavior and risk of gout using a Mendelian randomization study.

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This study aimed to examine whether smoking behavior is causally related to gout. Summary statistics of publicly available data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of smoking behavior (n = 85,997) served as the exposure dataset, while meta-analysis results of 14 studies including 2115 cases and 67,259 controls of European descent served as the outcome dataset. The data were subjected to two-sample...

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