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Endocrinol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study aims to investigate the impacts of phimosis on the health of the genitourinary system through Mendelian random analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Material and method<\/jats:title><jats:p>A dual-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was conducted using the publicly available genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. The inverse variance weighted based on the random effects model (Re-IVW) method was used as the main statistical analysis. Complementary methods, including weighted median, MR-Egger regression, and MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR-PRESSO), were applied to detect or correct the impact of horizontal pleiotropy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result<\/jats:title><jats:p>Re-IVW showed a genetic predictive causal relationship of phimosis on glomerulonephritis (odds ratio [OR]: 1.37 [1.13\u20131.65], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.00149) and IgA glomerulonephritis (OR: 1.57 [1.18\u20132.09), <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.00187). Suggestive evidence indicated that phimosis was associated with chronic nephritis syndrome (OR: 1.23 (1.00\u20131.51), p = 0.0481], acute nephritis syndrome (OR: 1.50 [1.13\u20132.01], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0058), and impotence (OR: 1.39 [1.11\u20131.73], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0035). Kidney and ureteral stone (OR: 1.14 [1.04\u20131.26], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0069), urethral strictures (OR: 1.26 [1.07\u20131.48], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0050), benign prostatic hyperplasia (OR: 1.07 [1.01\u20131.13], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0242), and decreased testicular function (OR: 0.72 [0.56\u20130.94], <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0141) have genetically predictive causal relationships.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>In summary, we employed a series of reliable analytical methods to investigate the association between phimosis and 26 urogenital diseases. 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