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Therefore, this study aimed to identify pleiotropic and specific therapeutic targets for cardio-cerebral diseases using Mendelian randomization (MR) and colocalization analyses.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study included two large protein quantitative trait loci studies with over 4,000 plasma proteins were included in the discovery and replication cohorts, respectively. We initially used MR to estimate the associations between protein and 20 cardio-cerebral diseases. Subsequently, Colocalization analysis was employed to enhance the credibility of the results. Protein target prioritization was based solely on including highly robust significant results from both the discovery and replication phases. Lastly, the Drug-Gene Interaction Database was utilized to investigate protein-gene-drug interactions further.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 46 target proteins for cardio-cerebral diseases were identified as robust in the discovery and replication phases by MR, comprising 7 pleiotropic therapeutic proteins and 39 specific target proteins. Followed by colocalization analysis and prioritization of evidence grades for target protein, 6 of these protein-disease pairs have achieved the highly recommended level. For instance, the PILRA protein presents a pleiotropic effect on sick sinus syndrome and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, whereas GRN exerts specific effects on the latter. 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