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Mendelian randomization study reveals a causal relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and risk for pre-eclampsia

Dingyi Zhang, Ying Hu, Weijie Guo, Yang Song, Lin Yang, Shuhan Yang, Taoaixin Ou, Yanxu Liu, Yaoyao Zhang

Frontiers in Immunology · 2022

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Background: Epidemiological observational studies have investigated the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis(RA) and pre-eclampsia, but no consistent conclusions were obtained due to various limitations. Hence, we conducted a two-sample mendelian randomization analysis to evaluate the potential causal effect of RA on pre-eclampsia. Methods: Summary-level statistics for RA were derived from a large-scale meta-analysis of datasets of genome-wide association studies(GWAS) which involved 14,361 cases and 43,923 controls. Moreover, summary statistics for pre-eclampsia or eclampsia were sourced from the Finn biobank which contained 3,903 cases and 114,735 controls. The inverse variance weighting (IVW) as well as other four effective methods including MR-Egger, weighted median, weighted mode

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fimmu.2022.1080980
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nouc-vtakaj
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