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Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies

Observational epidemiological studies are prone to confounding, reverse causation and various biases and have generated findings that have proved to be unreliable indicators of the causal effects of modifiable exposures on disease outcomes. Mendelian randomization (MR) is a method that utilizes gene...

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Autores principales: Davey Smith, George, Hemani, Gibran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25064373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddu328