Reflections and Mendelian randomization analysis of patients with vitiligo and pancreatic cancer
Xusheng Zhang,
Shicai Liang,
Xuebo Wang
et al.
Abstract:Objectives A special case of vitiligo patient with advanced pancreatic cancer was observed in our clinical practice, which prompted us to think about whether there is an association between the two diseases, and to further investigate whether there is a causal relationship between the two diseases, a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis was performed.
Methods In this study, two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were performed using inverse variance weighted (IVW), weighted median, MR-Egger re… Show more
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