The Causal Relationship between Obesity and Myasthenia Gravis: A Two-Sample and Multivariate Study
Mingni Yang,
Miaoduan Li,
Yiqiang Yang
et al.
Abstract:Background
Observational studies have identified a correlation between obesity and myasthenia gravis. Nonetheless, the causality of this relationship is debated. To address this, we employed Two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) to investigate the causal influences of obesity-related metrics on myasthenia gravis and its subtypes.
Methods
We retrieved the summary statistics of exposure-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from publicly available genome-wide association study abstracts, and the agg… Show more
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