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Genetic predisposition to smoking is associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a Mendelian randomization study.
Arthritis research & therapy - 6 Mar 2020
Qian Yu, Zhang Lingzhi, Wu David J H, Xie Zhijun, Wen Chengping, Mao Yingying
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BACKGROUND: Although observational epidemiological studies have found that smoking is positively associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), assessing the causality of this relationship has remained elusive because conventional observational studies are susceptible to bias such as confounding and reverse causation. Here, we applied the Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to examine the potential causal...
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