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Causal relationship and shared genes between air pollutants and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A large‐scale genetic analysis

Zhihao Li, Jie Wen, Wantao Wu, Ziyu Dai, Xisong Liang, Nan Zhang, Quan Cheng, Hao Zhang

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics · 2024

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OBJECTIVE: ) and the risk of ALS and elucidate the underlying mechanisms associated with this relationship. METHODS: The data utilized in our study were obtained from publicly available genome-wide association study data sets, in which single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were employed as the instrumental variantswith three principles. Two-sample Mendelian randomization and transcriptome-wide association (TWAS) analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of air pollutants on ALS and identify genes associated with both pollutants and ALS, followed by regulatory network prediction. RESULTS: showed a similar trend but without sufficient significance. In the TWAS analysis, TMEM175 and USP35 turned out to be the genes shared between PM2.5 and ALS in the same direction. CONCLUSION: might c

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1111/cns.14812
Catalogue ID
SNmoixo13g-wku5er
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