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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021

Evaluating Causal Relationship Between Metabolites and Six Cardiovascular Diseases Based on GWAS Summary Statistics.

Jiahao Qiao, Meng Zhang, Ting Wang, Shuiping Huang, Ping Zeng

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jiahao QiaoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Meng ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Ting WangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Shuiping HuangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Ping ZengDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The pathological mechanism and underlying biological processes of these diseases with metabolites remain unclear. In this study

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cardiovascular diseasescausal inferencegenome-wide association studyinstrumental variablemendelian randomizationmetabolic pathwaymetabolitessummary statistic

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PMID34721534
PMCPMC8554206

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