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Causal linkage of tobacco smoking with ageing: Mendelian randomization analysis towards telomere attrition and sarcopenia
25 Jan 2023
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BACKGROUND: Ageing traits and frailty are important health issues in modern medicine. Evidence supporting the causal effects of tobacco smoking on various ageing traits is required. METHODS: This study performed Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis instrumenting 377 genetic variants associated with being an ever-smoker at a genome-wide significance level to test the causal estimates from tobacco smoking. The...
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