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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023

Ten interleukins and risk of prostate cancer.

Bing-Hui Li, Si-Yu Yan, Li-Sha Luo, Xian-Tao Zeng, Yong-Bo Wang, Xing-Huan Wang

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bing-Hui LiDepartment of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Si-Yu YanCenter for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Li-Sha LuoCenter for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Xian-Tao ZengDepartment of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Yong-Bo WangCenter for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Xing-Huan WangDepartment of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Wuhan University · CNZhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University · CN

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_17228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Interleukins (ILs) have been reported to be related to prostate cancer. The aims of this study were to estimate the levels for several key interleukins in prostate cancer and the causal effects between them. Methods: We conducted a bi-directional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the causal associations between ILs and prostate cancer. Genetic instruments and summary-level data for 10 ILs were obtained from three genome-wide association meta-analyses. Prostate cancer related data were obtained from the PRACTICAL (79,148 cases and 61,106 controls), UK Biobank (7,691 cases and 169,762 controls) and FinnGen consortium (10,414 cases and 124,994 controls), respectively. Results: The odds ratio of prostate cancer was 0.92 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.89, 0.96; Conclusion: This MR study suggests that long-term IL-6 may increase the risk of prostate cancer and IL-1ra may reduce it.

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causal inferenceinterleukinMendelian randomizationprostate cancerrisk

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PMID36733309
PMCPMC9887118
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