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Genetic instrumental variable regression: Explaining socioeconomic and health outcomes in nonexperimental data

Identifying causal effects in nonexperimental data is an enduring challenge. One proposed solution that recently gained popularity is the idea to use genes as instrumental variables [i.e., Mendelian randomization (MR)]. However, this approach is problematic because many variables of interest are gen...

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Autores principales: DiPrete, Thomas A., Burik, Casper A. P., Koellinger, Philipp D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707388115