Little evidence for an effect of smoking on multiple sclerosis risk: A Mendelian Randomization study.
The causes of multiple sclerosis (MS) remain unknown. Smoking has been associated with MS in observational studies and is often thought of as an environmental risk factor. We used two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) to examine whether this association is causal using genetic variants identified...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000973 |