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Observational studies have shown associations between circulating cytokine levels and psoriasis vulgaris. But the causal relationship between circulating cytokine and psoriasis vulgaris remains elusive.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> To assess the causal effects of cytokine levels on the risk of psoriasis vulgaris and vice versa, we performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study by using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW), weighted median, and Mendelian randomization pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR-PRESSO) in genome-wide association summary statistics of 41 circulating cytokines in up to 8,293 individuals and psoriasis vulgaris in 399,883 individuals.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> We identified that increasing RANTES level induced an elevated risk of psoriasis vulgaris in IVW (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic> = 0.33, S.E. = 0.12, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.006). This causal effect showed consistency across the weighted median (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic> = 0.35, S.E. = 0.15, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.022) and MR-PRESSO method (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic> = 0.33, S.E. = 0.11, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.028).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Our results suggest a potential causal effect of elevated RANTES concentration on the increased risk of psoriasis vulgaris.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fgene.2022.941961","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,13]],"date-time":"2022-06-13T05:19:59Z","timestamp":1655097599000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Causal Effects of Circulating Cytokines on the Risk of Psoriasis Vulgaris: A Mendelian Randomization Study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Pan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Biyong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yufei","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guifeng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huihui","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chengwei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuemei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1061","DOI":"10.1038\/nature09534","article-title":"A Map of Human Genome Variation from Population-Scale Sequencing","volume":"467","author":"Abecasis","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajhg.2016.11.007","article-title":"Genome-wide Association Study Identifies 27 Loci Influencing Concentrations of Circulating Cytokines and Growth Factors","volume":"100","author":"Ahola-Olli","year":"2017","journal-title":"Am. 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