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Genetically determined selenium concentrations and risk for autoimmune diseases.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) - 1 Jan 2000
Ye Ding, Sun Xiaohui, Guo Ying, Shao Keding, Qian Yu, Huang Huijun, Liu Bin, Wen Chengping, Mao Yingying
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OBJECTIVE: Observational epidemiologic studies have reported a relationship between selenium status and risk for autoimmune diseases. However, the associations are susceptible to confounding or reverse causality. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential causal associations of selenium concentrations with the risk for common autoimmune diseases using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR)...
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