Mendelian Randomisation and Causal Inference in Observational Epidemiology
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- 26 August 2008
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- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 5 (8) , e177
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050177
Abstract
Nuala Sheehan and colleagues describe how Mendelian randomization provides an alternative way of dealing with the problems of observational studies, especially confounding.Keywords
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