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Cancers and COVID-19 Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- A large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis for the effect of COVID-19 on female-specific cancers.iScience · 2023Article
- COVID-19 hospitalization increases the risk of developing glioblastoma: a bidirectional Mendelian-randomization study.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Genetic support of the causal association between gut microbiome and COVID-19: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
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- SARS-CoV-2-Specific T Cell Immunity in HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma Patients in Zambia.Journal of immunology research · 2022Article
- Continuous care needs in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy during the recent omicron wave of COVID-19 in Shanghai: A qualitative study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Association between Blood Donation and Malignant and Benign Tumour Risk: A Population-Based Study of 3.4 Million Participants in China.Journal of oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Observational studies have shown increased COVID-19 risk among cancer patients, but the causality has not been proven yet. Mendelian randomization analysis can use the genetic variants, independently of confounders, to obtain causal estimates which are considerably less confounded. We aimed to investigate the causal associations of cancers with COVID-19 outcomes using the MR analysis. The inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method was employed as the primary analysis. Sensitivity analyses and multivariable MR analyses were conducted. Notably, IVW analysis of univariable MR revealed that overall cancer and twelve site-specific cancers had no causal association with COVID-19 severity, hospitalization or susceptibility. The corresponding
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