Inflammatory bowel disease and prostate cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis

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Background Previous epidemiological observational studies have reported an association between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and prostate cancer (PCa), but the causality is inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the causality of IBD on PCa using the mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. Methods We performed a two-sample MR analysis with public genome-wide association studies (GWAS) data....

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