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Therefore, this study aims to explore whether there are precise causal relationships between gut microbiota and PCOS.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Material and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We performed a bidirectional two\u2010sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. Datasets were from the largest published meta\u2010analysis on gut microbiota composition and the FinnGen cohort of the IEU Open Genome\u2010Wide Association Study Project database. Inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR\u2010Egger, constrained maximum likelihood\u2010based Mendelian randomization, weighted median, weighted mode, and simple mode were used. Cochran's Q and MR\u2010Egger intercept tests were employed to measure the heterogeneity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 211 gut microbiota taxa were identified in MR analysis. Nine taxa of bacteria, including Alphaproteobacteria (0.55, 0.30\u20130.99, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04), Bacilli (1.76, 1.07\u20132.91, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.03), <jats:italic>Bilophila<\/jats:italic> (0.42, 0.23\u20130.77, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.01), <jats:italic>Blautia<\/jats:italic> (0.16, 0.03\u20130.79, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.02), Burkholderiales (2.37, 1.22\u20134.62, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.01), <jats:italic>Candidatus Soleaferrea<\/jats:italic> (0.65, 0.43\u20130.98, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04), Cyanobacteria (0.51, 0.31\u20130.83, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.01), <jats:italic>Holdemania<\/jats:italic> (0.53, 0.35\u20130.81, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.01), and Lachnospiraceae (1.86, 1.04\u20133.35, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.03), were found to be associated with PCOS in the above MR methods included at least IVW method. Cochran's <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic> statistics and MR\u2010Egger intercept test suggested no significant heterogeneity. In addition, 69 taxa were shown significant for at least the IVW method in reverse MR analysis, of these, 25 had a positive correlation, and 37 had a negative correlation. 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