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While active substances are recognized as the main causes of the typical symptoms such as diarrhea and skin flush, the cause-and-effect relationship between gut microbiota abundance and CS remains unclear.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) related to gut microbiota abundance and CS were obtained from the GWAS summary data. The inverse variance weighted (IVW) method was used to assess the causal relationship between gut microbiota abundance and CS. Additionally, the MR-Egger, Weighted Median model, and Weighted model were employed as supplementary approaches. The heterogeneity function of the TwoSampleMR package was utilized to assess whether SNPs exhibit heterogeneity. The Egger intercept and Presso test were used to assess whether SNPs exhibit pleiotropy. The Leave-One-Out test was employed to evaluate the sensitivity of SNPs. The Steiger test was utilized to examine whether SNPs have a reverse causal relationship. A bidirectional mendelian randomization (MR) study was conducted to elucidate the inferred cause-and-effect relationship between gut microbiota abundance and CS.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The IVW results indicated a causal relationship between 6 gut microbiota taxa and CS. Among the 6 gut microbiota taxa, the genus Anaerofilum (IVW OR: 0.3606, 95%CI: 0.1554\u20130.8367, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0175) exhibited a protective effect against CS. On the other hand, the family Coriobacteriaceae (IVW OR: 3.4572, 95%CI: 1.0571\u201311.3066, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0402), the genus Enterorhabdus (IVW OR: 4.2496, 95%CI: 1.3314\u201313.5640, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0146), the genus Ruminiclostridium6 (IVW OR: 4.0116, 95%CI: 1.2711\u201312.6604, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0178), the genus Veillonella (IVW OR: 3.7023, 95%CI: 1.0155\u201313.4980, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0473) and genus Holdemanella (IVW OR: 2.2400, 95%CI: 1.0376\u20134.8358, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value: 0.0400) demonstrated a detrimental effect on CS. The CS was not found to have a reverse causal relationship with the above 6 gut microbiota taxa.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Six microbiota taxa were found to have a causal relationship with CS, and further randomized controlled trials are needed for verification.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2023.1291699","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,22]],"date-time":"2023-12-22T04:41:46Z","timestamp":1703220106000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["The cause-and-effect relationship between gut microbiota abundance and carcinoid syndrome: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Zexin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dongting","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fengxi","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gulizeba","family":"Muhetaer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haibo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3546","DOI":"10.1172\/JCI36130","article-title":"The cytokine network in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease","volume":"118","author":"Barnes","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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