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Polygenic associations and causal inferences between serum immunoglobulins and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Oct 2021
Chen Xu, Shen Xiaojun, Zhang Xuzhuo, Zhan Yiqiang, Fang Fang
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BACKGROUND: Due to the limitations like reverse causation and residual confounding commonly seen in the observational studies, the relationship between serum immunoglobulins and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) remains unclear. METHODS: Summary statistics from large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) among European ancestry populations (~15,000 individuals for serum immunoglobulins, and more than...
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