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Causal association between sleep phenotypes and susceptibility to childhood asthma: A two-sample Mendelian

Li Yin1, Feifei Zhang2, Fang Li1

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology : Official Publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
|August 17, 2026
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Childhood asthmaMendelian randomizationcircadian alignmentgenetic epidemiologysleep phenotypes

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