Kenneth Muir

ORCID: 0000-0001-6429-988X · 2 papers in corpus

2023

Exploring the causal role of the immune response to varicella-zoster virus on multiple traits: a phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study.

BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/s12916-023-02843-5

BackgroundThe immune response to infections could be largely driven by the individual's genes, especially in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region. Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a highly communicable pathogen. In addition to i…

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Appraising the role of previously reported risk factors in epithelial ovarian cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization analysis

PLoS medicine ·doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002893

BACKGROUND: Various risk factors have been associated with epithelial ovarian cancer risk in observational epidemiological studies. However, the causal nature of the risk factors reported, and thus their suitability as effective interventio…