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| Title |
Serum Iron Levels and the Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS Medicine, June 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001462 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Irene Pichler, Fabiola Del Greco M., Martin Gögele, Christina M. Lill, Lars Bertram, Chuong B. Do, Nicholas Eriksson, Tatiana Foroud, Richard H. Myers, Michael Nalls, Margaux F. Keller, Beben Benyamin, John B. Whitfield, Peter P. Pramstaller, Andrew A. Hicks, John R. Thompson, Cosetta Minelli |
| Abstract |
Although levels of iron are known to be increased in the brains of patients with Parkinson disease (PD), epidemiological evidence on a possible effect of iron blood levels on PD risk is inconclusive, with effects reported in opposite directions. Epidemiological studies suffer from problems of confounding and reverse causation, and mendelian randomization (MR) represents an alternative approach to provide unconfounded estimates of the effects of biomarkers on disease. We performed a MR study where genes known to modify iron levels were used as instruments to estimate the effect of iron on PD risk, based on estimates of the genetic effects on both iron and PD obtained from the largest sample meta-analyzed to date. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 29 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 10% |
| Canada | 3 | 10% |
| Germany | 3 | 10% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 8 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 7% |
| Scientists | 2 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 188 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 174 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 43 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 35 | 19% |
| Unknown | 24 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 18% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 23 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 12 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 26 | 14% |
| Unknown | 35 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 61. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2021.
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#696,935
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Outputs from PLOS Medicine
#1,104
of 5,162 outputs
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#5,155
of 209,898 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS Medicine
#21
of 70 outputs
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