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Author Spotlight: Advancing Reproductive Immunology with a Protocol for the Quantitative Evaluation of Endometrial Immune Cells
Published on: October 13, 2023
Immune cell phenotype in endometrial cancer: from biological significance to clinical utility using Mendelian
Lingfang Ye1, Beilei Chen1, Meng Cen1
1Department of Gynecology, Women and Children's Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, People's Republic of China.
Background:
We investigated the relationship between immune cells and endometrial cancer by conducting a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis.
Methods:
MR uses genetic variation as an instrumental variable to study the causal effects of exposure on observed data outcomes. We conducted a dual-sample MR analysis to investigate the causal relationship between 731 immune cell phenotypes and endometrial cancer (EC). The weighted-median method and inverse variance weighted method MR were mainly used, and the p-value was corrected with the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure.
Results:
The forward MR analysis revealed a causal relationship between EC and eight immune-cell phenotypes. The reverse MR analysis identified two immune-cell phenotypes with a potential causal effect on EC, with additional subtype-specific associations observed for endometrioid and non-endometrioid histology.
Conclusion:
Our study demonstrated a causal relationship between immune cells and EC, thereby providing guidance for the development of future immunoregulatory therapeutic strategies.
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