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Causal relationship between circulating levels of cytokines and bone mineral density: A mendelian randomization study.
Cytokine - 1 Oct 2024
Xu Taichuan, Li Chao, Liao Yitao, Zhang Xian
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BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have shown that various cytokines are important factors affecting bone mineral density (BMD), but the causality between the two remains uncertain. METHODS: Genetic variants associated with 41 circulating cytokines from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 8,293 Finns were used as instrumental variables (IVs) for a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. Inverse variance...
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