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Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.
Medicine - 20 Sept 2024
Teng Lin, Li Lei, Cui Dinglu, An Rongxian, Jin Jingchun
Abstract excerpt
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) as 2 types of autoimmune diseases are frequently concomitant, and Mendelian randomization (MR) was applied in this study to assess the causal relationship between them. In this study, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was used as the instrumental variable for Mendelian analysis, and the SNP data of GCA and PMR were obtained from the FinnGen Biobank...
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