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Phenome-wide study on alcohol consumption provides genetic evidence for a causal association with multiple diseases and biomarkers.
Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD - 1 Jun 2026
Assefa Kassaw Nigussie, Zhou Ang, Stacey David, Mulugeta Anwar, Lee Sang Hong, Burgess Stephen, Hyppӧnen Elina
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study investigates genetic evidence for a causal association between alcohol intake and 1174 diseases, and various biomarkers. METHODS AND RESULTS: A phenome-wide Mendelian randomization (MR) study was conducted using data from 337,463 UK Biobank participants. Five MR methods and sensitivity analyses tested linear associations, while non-linear MR assessed intake-dependent effects....
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