Causal relationship between gut microbiota and ankylosing spondylitis and potential mediating role of inflammatory cytokines: A mendelian randomization study

• Xinyu Du ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xinyudu6090@163.com

  Affiliation Orthopedics and Traumatology Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4768-4109

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• Haibo Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Orthopedics and Traumatology Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

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• Hongzhou Zhao,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Orthopedics and Traumatology Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

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• Shuangshuang Cui,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Orthopedics Institute, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

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• Xiaozhuo Sun,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Preventive Treatment of Disease Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

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• Xiaochan Tan

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Acupuncture Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China

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