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Genetic evidence that advanced COVID-19 accelerates longitudinal brain atrophy: A Mendelian randomization study.
Medicine - 26 Jun 2026
Wen Jie, Chen Yuyao, Zhang Jingwei, Tan Zeming, Xia Zhiwei, Yang Sisi, Liu Hongwei
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported to persist long-term in the brain and leave several long-term neurologic sequelae. However, the causal relationship between COVID-19 and brain aging is still unknown. The genome-wide association study (GWAS) data on COVID-19 phenotypes (susceptibility, hospitalization, and severity), involving a total of 5,779,391 participants, were collected from the COVID-19 Host...
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