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Causal relationships between adiposity and childhood asthma: bi-directional Mendelian Randomization analysis.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Jan 2019
Chen Yang-Ching, Fan Hsien-Yu, Huang Yen-Tsung, Huang Shih-Yi, Liou Tsan-Hon, Lee Yungling L
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Obesity and asthma are common chronic diseases and have been reported to be mutually causative. We investigated the causal direction of the relationship between adiposity and asthma using genetic markers as instrumental variables (IVs) in bi-directional Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We used data from the Taiwan Children Health Study with 24 body mass index...
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