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Mendelian randomization pleiotropy residual sum and outlier identified outliers in neutrophil count, yet the causal link persisted following correction. No weak instrumental bias was observed. No horizontal pleiotropy was observed. The leave-one-out analysis showed that no single single-nucleotide polymorphism was driving the results. 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