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Mixed evidence for the relationship between periodontitis and Alzheimer's disease: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Sun Yi-Qian, Richmond Rebecca C, Chen Yue, Mai Xiao-Mei
Abstract excerpt
Recent experimental studies indicated that a periodontitis-causing bacterium might be a causal factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We applied a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to examine the potential causal relationship between chronic periodontitis and AD bidirectionally in the population of European ancestry. We used publicly available data of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on...
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