Edited by: Sadiq Umar, University of Illinois Chicago, United States
Reviewed by: Zhiwei Li, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China
*Correspondence: Hong Song,
†These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Shuai Chen and his colleagues published a study titled “Causal effects of specific gut microbiota on bone mineral density: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study” in
On the first line of Supplementary Table S1, the Effect allele and Other alleles were marked wrong. In the article of Qi Wang et al. (
Under the subheading of Causal effect of the gut microbiota on forearm bone mineral density, this article first describes “Genus Prevotella9 (β = 0.129, 95% CI: 0.007–0.251, P = 0.039) were negatively associated with FA-BMD (Figure 2)”. Then, in
The study by Chen and his colleagues has helped us better understand the relationship between specific gut microbiota and bone mineral density. Still, it needs to be written more accurately to demonstrate the causal relationship between the gut microbiota and the risk of osteoporosis.
JC: Writing – original draft, Investigation. XG: Investigation, Writing – original draft. HS: Writing – review & editing.
The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The study is funded by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LGF20H270013; Postgraduate Research Fund Project of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University No. 2023YKJ20.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.