Effect of TSH on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) independent of obesity in children of predominantly Hispanic/Latino ancestry by causal mediation analysis

• Presley H. Nichols,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Yue Pan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Benjamin May,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Martina Pavlicova,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• John C. Rausch,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-641X

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• Ali A. Mencin,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Vidhu V. Thaker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vvt2114@cumc.columbia.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3537-2782

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