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Genetic predisposition to white blood cells in relation to the risk of frailty.
Aging clinical and experimental research - 1 Dec 2023
Wu Li, Zhao Xiao-Hong, Zhou Shi-Xian, Jiang Jing-Jin
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BACKGROUND: Observational studies have suggested an association between white blood cells (WBCs) and frailty, but considering the susceptibility to reverse causality and confounding, the causal direction and magnitude of this association remain ambiguous. Our aim was to investigate the causal effect of WBCs on frailty by means of a Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. METHODS: Based on the genome-wide...
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