Association between various cathepsins and uterine leiomyoma: A Mendelian randomization analysis

• Tingxiu Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tingxiu Liu, Yuehan Ren, Junning Zhang

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Yuehan Ren ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tingxiu Liu, Yuehan Ren, Junning Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Junning Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tingxiu Liu, Yuehan Ren, Junning Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, Department of Oncology of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Hechun Yin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Qi-Huang Chinese Medicine School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Zheng Zheng,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Mingyue Zhang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yan Liao,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Liangliang Yang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Chang Liu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Xinmin Liu ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: XinminLIU9626@126.com (XL); teamzhang@126.com (PY)

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0395-7289

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• Peiyu Yan

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: XinminLIU9626@126.com (XL); teamzhang@126.com (PY)

  Affiliations Faculty of Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, Macao, SAR, China, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology Zhuhai MUST Science and Technology Research Institute, Macao, Macao, SAR, China

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