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Genetic liability to obesity and peptic ulcer disease: a Mendelian randomization study.
BMC medical genomics - 4 Oct 2022
Li Zhoubin, Chen Heng, Chen Ting
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological evidence relating obesity to peptic ulcer disease (PUD) has been mixed. Here we sought to determine the causality in the association of obesity with PUD risk using the Mendelian randomization (MR) approach. METHODS: This study was based on summary-level data for body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and PUD derived from large genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Single...
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