Article
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Sept 2022
Magnus Maria C, Borges Maria Carolina, Fraser Abigail, Lawlor Deborah A
Abstract excerpt
Age at natural menopause (ANM) is associated with a range of health-related traits, including bone health, female reproductive cancers, and cardiometabolic health. Our objective was to conduct a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study (MR-pheWAS) of ANM. We conducted a hypothesis-free analysis of the genetic risk score (GRS) for ANM with 18,961 health-related traits among 181,279 women in UK...
Topics
- Breast Neoplasms
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Female
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Glycated Hemoglobin
- Humans
- Male
- Mendelian Randomization Analysis
- Menopause
- Minerals
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
