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Driver versus navigator causation in biology: the case of insulin and fasting glucose
BACKGROUND: In biomedicine, inferring causal relation from experimental intervention or perturbation is believed to be a more reliable approach than inferring causation from cross-sectional correlation. However, we point out here that even in interventional inference there are logical traps. In home...
Autores principales: | Diwekar-Joshi, Manawa, Watve, Milind |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33365205 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10396 |
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