ArticleFrontiers in immunology2023
Genetic support of the causal association between gut microbiome and COVID-19: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.
Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Association Between Gut Microbiota and Pneumonia Risk: A Systematic Review and Mendelian Randomization.International journal of medical sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Genetic insights of blood lipid metabolites on polycystic ovary syndrome risk: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Pooled it
- Disordered colonic microbiota as a potential contributor to inflammation in diarrheal Jinhua weaned piglets.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Causal relationship between gut microbiota and malignant lymphoma: a two-way two-sample mendelian randomization study.Translational cancer research · 2025Article
- Metagenomics Reveals Sex-Based Differences in Murine Fecal Microbiota Profiles Induced by Chronic Alcohol Consumption.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Multimodal Omics Data Integration: Paving the Path for the Next Frontier in Precision Medicine.Annual review of biomedical data science · 2024Review
- Alterations in microbiota of patients with COVID-19: implications for therapeutic interventions.MedComm · 2024Review
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Abstract
Background: The association between gut microbiome and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has attracted much attention, but its causality remains unclear and requires more direct evidence. Methods: In this study, we conducted the bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to assess the causal association between gut microbiome and COVID-19 based on the summary statistics data of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Over 1.8 million individuals with three COVID-19 phenotypes (severity, hospitalization and infection) were included. And 196 bacterial taxa from phylum to genus were analyzed. The inverse-variance weighted (IVW) analysis was chosen as the primary method. Besides, false discovery rate (FDR) correction of Results: In the forward MR, we found that 3, 8, and 10 bacterial taxa had suggestive effects on COVID-19 severity, hospitalization and infection, respectively. The genus Conclusion: Our study revealed the causal association between gut microbiome and COVID-19 and highlighted the role of "gut-lung axis" in the progression of COVID-19.
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