Dissecting the causal role of immunophenotypes in primary sclerosing cholangitis risk: A Mendelian randomization study.

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Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a chronic cholestatic liver condition, is frequently associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Specific immune cells have been implicated in PSC pathogenesis with the emergence of the "microbiota" and "gut lymphocyte homing" hypotheses, albeit their identities remain controversial. The first genome-wide association analysis leveraged nonoverlapping data from 3757 Europeans...

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