Investigation of the causal association between Parkinson’s disease and autoimmune disorders: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Junyi Yang,
Weiran Lin,
Yumei Ma
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundTo date, an increasing number of epidemiological evidence has pointed to potential relationships between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and various autoimmune diseases (AIDs), however, no definitive conclusions has been drawn about whether PD is causally related to AIDs risk.MethodsBy employing summary statistics from the latest and most extensive genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we performed a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to investigate the causal associations betw… Show more
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