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Association between obesity, brain atrophy and accelerated brain aging and their genetic mechanisms
2022-12-30
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<h4>Objective</h4> To investigate the causal relationship and the underlying biological mechanisms between body mass index (BMI) and grey matter volume (GMV). <h4>Methods</h4> We applied Mendelian randomization analyses utilizing 33,6514 individuals from the UK Biobank cohort to establish the causal relationship between BMI and GMV. We also quantified obesity-related accelerated brain aging using an XGBoost predic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cbf571fb-f772-534d-9777-a18ae851c866
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.12.30.22284052
