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Appraising the causal relationship between thyroid function and rheumatoid arthritis: a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2023
Gu Peng, Pu Bin, Ma YangCheng, Yue Dan, Xin Qiao, Li HaiShan, Liu Teng, Zheng XiaoHui, Ouyang ChongZhi
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Background: Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism are observationally associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but causality is unclear. To evaluate the causal relationship between thyroid function and RA, we conducted a two-Sample bidirectional Mendelian Randomization (MR) study. Methods: Single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with six phenotypes were selected from the FinnGen biobank database, The...
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