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Causal associations of iron status with gout and rheumatoid arthritis, but not with inflammatory bowel disease.
Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Oct 2020
Yuan Shuai, Larsson Susanna
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization study to assess the associations of iron homeostasis with the risk of gout, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. METHODS: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms for iron status were selected at the genome-wide significance level from a large genome-wide association study of 48 972 European-descent individuals. Summary-level data for...
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