Adjusting for bias and unmeasured confounding in Mendelian randomization studies with binary responses

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1161-1168

  Palmer, Tom M ^a   Thompson, John R ^a   Tobin, Martin D ^a   Sheehan, Nuala A ^a   Burton, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Instrumental variable analysis; Mendelian randomization; Unobserved confounding

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENE; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349140946     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn080     Document Type: Article

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