No Genetic Causality between Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Diabetic Nephropathy: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study
Qiqi Ma,
Shuaihua Song,
Gaosi Xu
Abstract:Background
Numerous studies have reported the close relationship between branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) and diabetic nephropathy (DN). Nevertheless, whether there is a genetically causal association between them remains profoundly elusive.
Methods
A two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was performed using the large genome-wide association studies of the European population. The causal association was primarily evaluated by the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method. In addition, MR-Egger regre… Show more
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