Disentangling the Causal Effect of Telomere Length in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Genetic Variants as Instruments

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China, and Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.