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Appraising the Effect of Potential Risk Factors on Thyroid Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 16 Jun 2022
Huang Lulu, Feng Xiuming, Yang Wenjun, Li Xiangzhi, Zhang Kang, Feng Shuzhen, Wang Fei, Yang Xiaobo
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CONTEXT: Various risk factors have been associated with the risk of thyroid cancer in observational studies. However, the causality of the risk factors is not clear given the susceptibility of confounding and reverse causation. OBJECTIVE: A 2-sample Mendelian randomization approach was used to estimate the effect of potential risk factors on thyroid cancer risk. METHODS: Genetic instruments to proxy 55 risk...
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