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Common and Rare PCSK9 Variants Associated with Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels and the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
International journal of molecular sciences - 8 Sept 2022
Hsu Lung-An, Teng Ming-Sheng, Wu Semon, Chou Hsin-Hua, Ko Yu-Lin
Abstract excerpt
PCSK9 is a candidate locus for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. The cause-effect relationship between LDL-C levels and diabetes mellitus (DM) has been suggested to be mechanism-specific. To identify the role of PCSK9 and genome-wide association study (GWAS)-significant variants in LDL-C levels and the risk of DM by using Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis, a total of 75,441 Taiwan Biobank...
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