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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Main Authors: Ruth E Mitchell, Kirsty Bates, Robyn E Wootton, Adil Harroud, J Brent Richards, George Davey Smith, Marcus R Munafò
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000973