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Simulations and directed acyclic graphs explained why assortative mating biases the prenatal negative control design

OBJECTIVE: The negative control design can be used to provide evidence for whether a prenatal exposure–outcome association occurs by in utero mechanisms. Assortative mating has been suggested to influence results from negative control designs, although how and why has not yet been adequately explain...

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Autores principales: Madley-Dowd, Paul, Rai, Dheeraj, Zammit, Stanley, Heron, Jon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31689456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.10.008