ArticleMicroorganisms2024
Gut Microbiota Composition Is Causally Linked to Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
Article in Microorganisms, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Integrated multi-omics analysis identifies microbial and metabolic signatures and drivers of CNS autoimmunity.mSystems · 2026Article
- CAR-T Cell Therapy and Gut Microbiota Modulation in Multiple Sclerosis: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies and Current Limitations.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- From association to causation: a decision-aware framework for reproducible biomarker discovery and precision intervention design in the human gut microbiome.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- High-intensity exercise training alters gut microbiota to mitigate the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Chinese Herbal Medicine Targets Gut Microbiota to Combat Neurodegenerative Diseases: Potential Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Gut-brain axis in neurology: microbiome as a modifiable risk factor for multiple sclerosis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Microbial-Immune Interplay in CNS Autoimmune Diseases: Lessons from Animal Models and Clinical Studies.European journal of immunology · 2026Review
- Integrated multi-omics analysis identifies microbial and metabolic signatures and drivers of CNS autoimmunity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Mechanisms and clinical implications of gut-brain interactions.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Review
- Causal relationship between gut microbiota and adenomyosis: metagenomics sequencing and Mendelian randomization.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Role of the gut-brain axis in neurological diseases: Molecular connections and therapeutic implications (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
- The Microbiota-Human Health Axis.Microorganisms · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Accumulating evidence links the microbial communities inhabiting the gut to the pathophysiological processes underlying multiple sclerosis (MS). However, most studies on the microbiome in MS are correlative in nature, thus being at risk of confounding and reverse causality. Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses allow the estimation of the causal relationship between a risk factor and an outcome of interest using genetic variants as proxies for environmental exposures. Here, we performed a two-sample MR to assess the causality between the gut microbiome and MS. We extracted genetic instruments from summary statistics from three large genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on the gut microbiome (18,340, 8959, and 7738 subjects). The exposure data were derived from the latest GWAS on MS susceptibility (47,429 patients and 68,374 controls). We pinpointed several microbial strains whose abundance is linked with enhanced MS risk (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.